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" For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is. "
Eighteenth Century Studies: Essays - Page 182
by Francis Hitchman - 1881 - 386 pages
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The panorama of wit. Exhibiting the choicest epigrams in the English language

Panorama - 1809 - 368 pages
...I'll take the money, * 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...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1810 - 530 pages
...attempted nothing higher, were 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,...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1810 - 528 pages
...attempted nothing higher, were perfectly contemptible, and drew from Garrick the following poignant epigram : For physic and farces his equal there scarce is ; His farces aie physic, his physic a farce is : and Churchill in his Rosciad has not spared him: With sleek appearance...
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Names of dramas : M-Z. Latin plays by English authors. Oratorios. Appendix ...

David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 492 pages
...than that of Mr. Garrick, who, on the representation of the Rout, produced this happy distich : — " For physic and farces, his equal there scarce is ; " His farces are physic, his physic a farce is." This piece also gave rise to the following epigram : Says a friend to the Doctor, " Pray give it about...
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Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: M-Z. Latin plays by English authors ...

David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 494 pages
...who, on the representation of the Rout, produced this happy distich : — " For physic and faiccs, his equal there scarce is ; " His farces are physic, his physic a farce is." This piece also gave rise to the following epigram : Says a friend to the Doctor, " Pray give it about...
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Warburton and his quarrels; including an illustration of his literary ...

Isaac Disraeli - 1814 - 310 pages
...knows, be magnified 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,...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...and I'll take the 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...
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Tickler, Or, Monthly Compendium of Good Things, in Prose and ..., Volumes 1-3

1818 - 596 pages
...reflection ! Anil when a^aiu 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...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 1; Volume 125

1819 - 754 pages
...To Garrick only tears." In 1758, 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...
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Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle, Volume 125

1819 - 728 pages
...Dr. Hill's farce of Ihe Rout was acted, when Garrick produced this epigram: " For physic and farres His equal there scarce is, His farces are physic, His physic a farce is." In the ensuing year Hill wrote a pamphlet entitled " To David Garrick, the petition of I in behalf...
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