[23] Mr. Townley, under the signature of a connoisseur, wrote the following lines to Mr. Hogarth on his Analysis of Beauty:—
"How could you dare, advent'rous man,
To execute so bold a plan,
Or such unheard of truths advance?
At once so rashly to oppose
Those fierce, outrageous, hardy foes,
Fraud, Prejudice, and Ignorance!
"To their despotic, cruel sway,
Fair Science long has been a prey,
All modern art they trampled down;