IN the year 1730, about six years after he had been in London, he brought a tragedy upon the stage called Sophonisba.. . . Mr. Thomson makes one of his characters address Sophonisba in a line which some critics reckoned the false pathetic:
0! Sophonisba, Sophonisba, oh!
Upon which a smart from the pit cried out,
Oh! Jamey Thomson, Jamey Thomson, oh!
From Cibber, Lives, v. 209-10.