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" 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 468
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American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, Volume 4

1833 - 776 pages
...on bruises, as the hair soon grows out. "Thanks, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter ._ Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd in a platter;...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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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 602 pages
...intended fare, — a small turbot and a boiled edgebone of beef. ' The very things of all others that I like,' exclaimed Pope ; ' I will come with the greatest...had been laid for him, but he was fairly caught, and after a puny effort at trifling with a slice of fat, he laid down his knife and fork, and gave way...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

1836 - 602 pages
...could literally eat no longer; when the word was given, and a haunch of vension was brought in, tit to be made the subject of a new poetical epistle ;...had been laid for him, but he was fairly caught, and after a puny effort at trifling with a slice of fat, he laid down his knife and fork, and gave way...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 27

1836 - 456 pages
...poetical epistle ; — " For finer or falter Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd in a platter ; The hauuch was a picture for painters to study : The fat was...had been laid for him, but he was fairly caught, and after a puny eflbrt at trifling with a slice of fat, he laid down his knife and fork, and gave way...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 55-56

1836 - 1184 pages
...a new poetical epistle;— ' For finer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd in a platter; The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy.'...had been laid for him, but he was fairly caught, and after a puny effort at trifling with a slice of fat, he laid down his knife and fork, and gave way...
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The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an account of ..., Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...LORD 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:...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pages
...TO LORD CLARE. FIRST PRINTKD IN MDCCLXV. 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...
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Poems and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...LORD 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 hy eating...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 pages
...CUSE. THANK«, my lord, for your venison, for fineror fatter îsever ranged in a forest, or smoked w blind to all that truth requires, Who think it freedom when a ; Though my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating:...
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The Miscellaneous Works of O.G.: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...CXAttE. 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...
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