If even Garrick himself were to rise from the dead, he could not act Hamlet alone.

There must be generals, colonels, commanding-officers, subalterns.

But what are the private soldiers to do?
Many have mistaken their own talents, and have been driven in early youth to try the stage, to which they are not competent.

He would know what to say to the indifferent poet and to the bad artist.

He would say that it was foolish, and he would recommend to the poet to become a scribe, and the artist to paint sign-posts.