Note 166 — HOGARTH ILLUSTRATED. (continued 3)
Reading edition
"Little did the sportive satirist imagine that the power of pleasing was so soon to cease in both! Hogarth died in four weeks after the publication of this poem, and Churchill survived him but nine days. In some lines which were printed in November 1764, the compiler of these anecdotes took occasion to lament that
"'Scarce had the friendly tear, For Hogarth shed, escap'd the generous eye Of feeling pity, when again it flow'd For Churchill's fate. Ill can we bear the loss Of Fancy's twin-born offspring, close allied In energy of thought, though different paths They sought for fame!—Though jarring passions sway'd The living artists, let the funeral wreath Unite their memory!'" —Nichols' Biographical Anecdotes of Hogarth.