He contemptuously offers the purchasers of his "Analysis of Beauty," to present them _gratis_ with "an eighteenpenny pamphlet," published by Ramsay the painter, written in opposition to Hogarth's principles.

So untameable was the irritability of this great inventor in art, that he attempts to conceal his irritation by offering to dispose gratuitously of the criticism which had disturbed his nights.[A] [Footnote A: Hogarth was not without reason for exasperation.

He was severely attacked for his theories about the curved line of beauty, which was branded as a foolish attempt to prove crookedness elegant, and himself vulgarly caricatured.

It was even asserted that the theory was stolen from Lomazzo.

ED.] Parties confederate against a man of genius,--as happened to Corneille, to D'Avenant,[A] and Milton; and a Pradon and a Settle carry away the meed of a Racine and a Dryden.