 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 618 pages
...Venison ; for finer or fatter, Ne'er ranged in a forest, or smoked in a platter. The hauneh was a pieture for painters to study, The fat was so white, and the lean was so ruddy ; Though my stomach was sharp, I could searee help regretting To spoil such a delieate pieture by eating... | |
 | Benjamin Lambert - 1861 - 62 pages
...: — " 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.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 422 pages
...kitchen of a poet : it was a side, by the way, not merely a haunch : 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 eating... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 pages
...poet : it was a side, by the way, not merely a haunch : Thanks, my lord, for your venison ; for fmer or fatter Never rang'd in a forest, or smok'd in a...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 - 1864 - 464 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,...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... | |
 | 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 - 182 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, 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... | |
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