In heav’n the bard, on earth the play’r.”
“Verses dropped in Mr. Garrick’s Temple of Shakespeare.” Poems and Miscellaneous Compositions, 1790.
Garrick had in his garden at Hampton a temple dedicated to Shakespeare, containing a statue of the poet by Roubiliac.
WILLIAM COMBE, 1812
(1741-1823)
“Dr. Syntax in the Pit of Covent Garden Theatre.”
Critic.—
“Oh, what a Falstaff! Oh, how fine!
Oh, ’tis great acting—’tis divine!”
Syntax.—