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" Though my stomach was sharp, I could scarce help regretting To spoil such a delicate picture by eating; I had thoughts, in my chambers, to place it in view, To be shown to my friends as a piece of virtu; As in some Irish houses, where things are... "
Glimpses of Irish Industries - Page 10
by John Bowles Daly - 1889 - 235 pages
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The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a notice of his life and genius ...

Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Forster Blanchard - 1867 - 200 pages
...view To be shown to my friends as a piece of virtu ; As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show : But, for...They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in. But hold — let me pause — don't I hear you pronounce This tale of the bacon 'sa damnable bounce...
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Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de ...

Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 432 pages
...be shewn to my friends as a piece of virtu — • As in some Irish houses, where tiiings are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show ; But, for...pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fry'd in. But hold — let me pause — don't I hear you pronounce This tale of the bacon's a damnable...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...lords of human-kind pass by. Goldtmith, Trav. 327. As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show ; But, for...take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it's fried in. Goldsmith, Haunch of Feniton, 9. Of rank, descent, and title proud, Mere gentry, Lady...
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Oliver Goldsmith: a Biography

Washington Irving - 1868 - 414 pages
...view, To be shown to my friends as a piece of virtu ; As in some Irish houses where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show ; But, for...eating a rasher, of what they take pride in, They'd as eoon think of eating the pan it was fry*d in. ****** t But hang it — to poets, who seldom can eat....
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Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography

Washington Irving - 1868 - 486 pages
...view, To be shown to my friends as a piece of virtu; As in some Irish houses where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show ; But, for eating a rasher, of what they take pride in, They 'd as soon think of eating the pan it was fry'd in. But hang it — to poets, who seldom can eat,...
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The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith. Ed. by B. Corney

Oliver Goldsmith - 1868 - 276 pages
...had thoughts in my chambers to place it in view, To be shown to my friends as a piece of virtu; As in some Irish houses, where things are so so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show — 10 But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan...
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The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, with beiogr. intr. by prof. [D ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pages
...had thoughts in my chambers to place it in view, To be shown to my friends as a piece of virtu ; As e exception, completed our inventory of Goldsmith's But hold — let me pause — don't I hear you pronounce This tale of the bacon a damnable bounce?...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 774 pages
...had thoughts in my chambers to place it in view, To be shown to my friends as a piece of virtu ; As in some Irish houses, where things are so so, One...They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in. But hold — let me pause — don't I hear you pronounce This tale of the bacon a damnable bounce ?...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 pages
...so-so. One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; — Rut, tor eating a rasher of what they take prldo In, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried In. Rut hold— let me pause— Don't I hear you pronounce. This tale of the bacon a damnable bounce ?...
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The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith, and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

Thomas Campbell - 1870 - 456 pages
...had thoughts, in my chambers to place it in view, To be shown to my friends as a piece of virtA; As in some Irish houses, where things are so so, One...They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in. But hold — let me pause— don't I hear you pronounce, This tale of the bacon's a damnable bounce...
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