...the day, Garrick, inter alias, hitting him off most happily : — " !For physic and farces, his rival there scarce is ; His farces are physic, his physic a farce is \ " Chief Works. — SCIENTIFIC.— System of Botany,— published under the auspices of the Earl of...

...indolence and dissipation as much as Salmagunda's best contributor eschewed physic from Dr. Costive. For physic and farces, His equal there scarce is, His farces are physic, His physic a farce is. Who will furnish us a paper exclusively on American almanacks? BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. MEMORIAL OF...

...many lighter compositions. He quarrelled with Garrick, who wrote the following epitaph on him : — " For Physic and Farces His equal there scarce is ; His Farces are Physic, His Physic a Farce is." Dr. Johnson said of Hill, that "if he would have been contented to tell the world no more than he knew,...

...the stinging lines in which Garrick expressed an equal contempt for his medicine and dramas, — " For physic and farces, His equal there scarce is, His farces are physic. His physic a farce is." " He used," Johnson said of Hill, or (as some Boswellian editors suspect) of some other scribe to whom...

...laughing in it. On Sir John Hill, who wrote on all subjects, and professed Physic and Botany. FOR physics and farces his equal there scarce is ; His farces are physic, his physic a farce is. Portrait of a Good Wife. T7AITHFUL— as dog, the lonely shepherd's pride ; -T True — as the helm,...

...his Dialogues of the Dead and Persian Lettersl\ CXLIII. ON SIR JOHN HILL, PHYSICIAN AND DRAMATIST. For physic and farces his equal there scarce is : His farces are physic, his physic a farce is. David Garrick (1716-1779). [Sir John Hill (1716-1775) was the author of The Vegetable System and other...

...We have seen how he wrote about poor Goldsmith. Equally well known is his couplet upon John Hill : For physic and farces his equal there scarce is, His farces are physic, his physic a farce is. Not so familiar is his epigram on the same individual in reference to Hill's censure of Garrick's pronunciation...

...the Rout, which was performed in 1758, and was damned on the second night of its representation — " For physic and farces, his equal there scarce is, His farces are physic, his physic a farce is." In the course of his botanical pursuits he got introduced to Mr. Martin Folkes, the president, and...

...instead of doing so, or of taking legal action, he contented himself with the wellknown epigram, — For physic and farces, his equal there scarce is, His farces are physic, his physic a farce is. Smollett, a writer of a different calibre from either of these, succeeded in inducing Garrick to play...

...instead of doing so, or of taking legal action, he contented himself with the wellknown epigram, — For physic and farces, his equal there scarce is, His farces are physic, his physic a farce is. Smollett, a writer of a different calibre from either of these, succeeded in inducing Garrick to play...