 | Panorama - 1809 - 368 pages
...This cousisted of Garrick, Tompson, &c. ON DR. HILL'S FARCE, CALLED THE ROUT. FOR Physic and Farces His equal there scarce is ; His farces are physic, His physic a farce is. A PLAIN FACT. THOU'LT fight, if any man call Phcete whore: That she is thine, wliat can proclaim it... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 530 pages
...perfectly contemptible, and drew from Garrick the following poignant epigram: For physic and farces his equal there scarce is; His farces are physic, his physic a farce is: and Churchill in his Rosciad has not spared him: With sleek appearance and with ambling pace, And,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 492 pages
...who, on the representation of the Rout, produced this happy distich : — " For physic and farces, his equal there scarce is ; " His farces are physic,...the Doctor, " Pray give it about " That this farce is not yours, or you'll miss of the pelf; " What had come of your Nerves, or your P—x, or your Gout... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 500 pages
...Rout, produced this happy distich :— " For physic and farces, his equal there scarce is; " His faicts are physic, his physic a farce is." This piece also gave rise to the following epigram: 6ays a friend to the Doctor, " Pray give it about " That this farce is not yours, or you "11 miss of... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1814 - 310 pages
...Before it can be seen." Garrick's happy lines are well known, on his Farces. " For physic and farces his equal there scarce is — His farces are physic, his physic a farce i,'." Another said — " The worst that we wish thee, for all thy vile crimes, Is to take thy own physic,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...money. Written soon after Dr. Hill's Farce, called the Rout, was acted. GARRICK. FOR physic and farces His equal there scarce is ; His farces are physic, His physic a farce is. To Dr. Hill, upon his Petition of the Letter I to Mr. Garrick. GARRICK. IF 'tis true, as you say, that... | |
 | 1818 - 596 pages
...he rising shines, Thy day of resurrection! ON SIR JOHN HILL'S DRAMATIC WORKS. For physic and farces, His equal there scarce is ; His farces are physic, His physic a farce-is 1 EPIGRAM ON AN EPIGRAM. The qualities all in a bee that we meet In an epigram never should... | |
 | 1819 - 754 pages
...Dr. Hill's farce of the Rout was acted, when Garrick produced this epigram: " For physic and farces His equal there scarce is, His farces are physic, His physic a farce is." In Ihe ensuing year Hill wrote a pamphlet entitled " To David Garrick, the petition of I in behalf... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...epigrams possess truer point than that of Garrick on this medical dramatist : For physic and farces his equal there scarce is, His farces are physic, his physic a farce is. He compiled the supplement to Cbambers's Dictionary, and published a daily paper called the ' Inspector,'... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 402 pages
...the damnation of his farce called the "Rout," in Dec. 1759: " ON DR. HILL. " For physic and farces, his equal there scarce is, " His farces are physic, his physic a farce is. The two next, written by some of Garrick's friends, were afterwards inserted in the public prints.... | |
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For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is. 
