 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 468edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...CLARE. THANEs, 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 - 1842 - 416 pages
...sky. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE, T» LORD CLARE. THANKS, myLord, for your Ven'son ; for finer or fatter, Never rang'd in a forest, or...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... | |
 | Robert Gordon LATHAM - 1843 - 236 pages
...your v£n'son ; for finer nor fatter Ne'er ranged in the forest nor sm6ked on the platter : The fl£sh was a picture for painters to study, The fat was so white and the lean was so ruddy. [Though] my stcimach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1844 - 682 pages
...condition. That rib, now, is not merely the fat— no, sir, it is the marrotv of the land ! " The ox was a picture for painters to study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy." There is not in London — which is as much as to say there is not in the world — a finer sight than... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...LORD CLARE. THANK*, 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 pages
...also dated in 1776, which is s to be taken from the lait transcript of the author. It has ten additio: 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... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 pages
...your ven'son ; for finer nor fatter Ne'er ranged in the forest nor smoked on the platter : 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.... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1845 - 308 pages
...condition. That rib, now, is not merely the fat — no, Sir, it is the marrow of the land ! The ox was a picture for painters to study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy. Here is a shop we should have noticed before — meat after fish — Grove's venison and fish-shop.... | |
 | John Ross Dix, Looker on - 1845 - 160 pages
...so say we of the splendid piece of that meat which maketh fat the body of man — ' Those ribs were a picture for painters to study, The fat was so white and the lean was so ruddy.' How miserable it used to be to watch, in the markets of London at Christmas time, the looks of the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE, 1705. 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... | |
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