 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, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 pages
...finer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest. or smok'd in a platter: The Hauneh was a pieture for paiaters to study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy ;* Though my stomaeh was sharp, I eould searee help regretting To spoil sueh a delieate pieture by... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 pages
...LORD 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:... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1855 - 542 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.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...with a pleasantry not carried loo far."] THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. THANKS, my Lord, for your Ven'son ; 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 - 1856 - 448 pages
...Kl'lSTLK TO LOED CLAE f Pint printal m THANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter Never rangM in a forest, or smok'd in a platter ; The haunch was...study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy ; Though my stomach was sharp, 1 could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 460 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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