 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 4681836Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 pages
...POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE, l765. 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...CLARE.] 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 416 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... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pages
...made the subject of a new poetical epistle " For finer or fatter, Never ranged in a forest, or smoked in a platter, The haunch was a picture for painters...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 402 pages
...kitcben 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 - 1851 - 476 pages
...LORD CLARE. THANES, 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 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...— 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 - 1851 - 162 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...— The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy. Though my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting But, for eating a rasher of what they take... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...ven'ison ; for fin'er nor fat'ter Ne'er ranged' in the for'est nor smoked' on the plat'ter : The flesh boasted myself with so much exultation. " My lord, yonr lordship's most humble and m [Though] my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating.... | |
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