 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
 | James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 540 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 436 pages
...farther. HANKS, 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Henry William Dulcken - 1865 - 410 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... | |
 | 1865 - 342 pages
...THANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd in a plutter ; The haunch 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...VENISON. 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. Goldsmith, Haunch of Venison, 1. VENGEANCE. I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Forster Blanchard - 1867 - 200 pages
...* I ""HANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter -*- Never 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... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 376 pages
...CLARE. THANKS, my Lord, for your venison — for finer or fatter Never 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... | |
 | Thomas Farrington De Voe - 1867 - 488 pages
...taxed. " Thanks, ray lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter, Never ranged in a forest, or smoked on a platter ; The haunch was a picture for painters...study, The fat was so white and the lean was so ruddy." — Dr. Goldsmith. Very large portions of venison is found in (hind) saddles only, and principally... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1868 - 486 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, 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1868 - 276 pages
...written, it is believed, in :771. It is now printed from the second edition, also dated in 1776, which is The haunch 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... | |
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