 THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE. THANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd in a platter ; The haunch was a picture for painters to study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so...  The Quarterly Review - Page 4661836Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 pages
...While converts thank their poet in the skies. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON: THANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd...— The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy. Though my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...ven'ison ; | for fin'er I nor fat'ter Ne'er ranged' in the forest nor smoked' on the plat'ter : The flesh was a picture for painters to study, The fat was so white and the lean was so ruddy. [Though] my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating.—... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 200 pages
...'«.i«•ia •-B'^^v: . .. »>». .'i'. . -, •" U •..lLA , THANRS, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd...— The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy. Though my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...POETICAL KI-IJ lj TO LORD CLARE, 1765. Thanks, my lord, for your venison ; for finer or fatter Ne'er rang'd in a forest, or smok'd in a platter ; The haunch...study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy. Though my stomach was sharp I could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 618 pages
...Venison ; for finer or fatter, Ne'er ranged in a forest, or smoked in a platter. The hauneh was a pieture for painters to study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy ; Though my stomach was sharp, I could searee help regretting To spoil such a delieate pieture by eating... | |
 | Benjamin Lambert - 1861 - 62 pages
...: — " Thanks, my lord, for your venison ; for finer or fatter Ne'er ranged in a forest, or smoked in a platter. The haunch was a picture for painters...study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy. Though my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 422 pages
...kitchen of a poet : it was a side, by the way, not merely a haunch : Thanks, my lord, for your venison ; for finer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd...study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy; Though my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 pages
...poet : it was a side, by the way, not merely a haunch : Thanks, my lord, for your venison ; for fmer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd in a...study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy; Though my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 pages
...kitchen of a poet, accustomed to look up to mutton as a treat : — " Thanks, my lord, for your venison ; for finer or fatter • Never rang'd in a forest,...study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy ; Though my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 182 pages
...CLARE. THANKS, my Lord, for your Ven'son ; for finer or fatter, Ne'er ranged in a forest, or smoked in a platter. The haunch was a picture for painters...study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy ; Though my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating... | |
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