Note 70 — HOGARTH.
Reading edition
"While thinking figures from the canvas start, And Hogarth is the Garrick of his art,"
is a couplet in Smart's Hilliad.
The compliment from the Hilliad to Mr. Hogarth, Mr. Smart observes, "is reciprocal, and reflects a lustre on Mr. Garrick, both of them having similar talents, equally capable of the highest elevation, and of representing the ordinary scenes of life with the most exquisite humour."