It would occupy pages to transcribe epigrams on Hill. One of them alludes to his philosophical as well as his literary character:—
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“Hill puffs himself; forbear to chide! An insect vile and mean Must first, he knows, be magnified Before it can be seen.” |
Garrick’s happy lines are well known on his farces:—
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“For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.” |
Another said—
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“The worse that we wish thee, for all thy vile crimes, Is to take thy own physic, and read thy own rhymes.” |
The rejoinder would reverse the wish—
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“For, if he takes his physic first, He’ll never read his rhymes.” |