"How I want thee, humorous _Hogarth!_ Thou, I hear, a pleasant rogue art! Were but you and I acquainted, Every monster should be painted: You should try your graving tools On this odious group of fools; Draw the beasts as I describe them; Form their features, while I gibe them; Draw them like, for I assure ye, You will need no _caricatura_. Draw them so, that we may trace All the soul in every face." An elegant compliment was soon after paid to _Hogarth_ by _Somervile_, the author of _The Chace_, who dedicates his _Hobbinol_ to him as to "the greatest master in the burlesque way." Yet _Fielding_, in the Preface to _Joseph Andrews_, says, "He who should call the ingenious _Hogarth_ a burlesque painter, would, in my opinion, do him very little honour, for sure it is much easier, much less the subject of admiration, to paint a man with a nose, or any other feature of a preposterous size, or to expose him in some absurd or monstrous attitude, than to express the affections of men on canvas. It hath been thought a vast commendation of a painter, to say his figures seem to breathe; but surely it is a much greater and nobler applause, that they appear to think."[38] _Vincent Bourne_, that classical ornament of _Westminster School_, addressed the following copy of hendecasyllables "Ad GULIELMUM HOGARTH, Παρουνετικόν [Greek: Parounetikon] "Qui mores hominum improbos, ineptos, Incidis, nec ineleganter, æri, Derisor lepidus, sed & severus, Corrector gravis, at nec invenustus; Seu pingis meretricios amores, Et scenas miseræ vicesque vitæ; Ut tentat pretio rudem puellam Corruptrix anus, impudens, obesa; Ut se vix reprimit libidinosus Scortator, veneri paratus omni: Seu describere vis, facete censor, Bacchanalia sera protrahentes Ad confinia crastinæ diei, Fractos cum cyathis tubos, matellam Non plenam modò sed superfluentem, Et fortem validumque combibonem Lætantem super amphorâ repletâ; Jucundissimus omnium ferêris, Nullique artificum secundus, ætas Quos præsens dedit, aut dabit futura. Macte ô, eja age, macte sis amicus Virtuti: vitiique quod notâris, Pergas pingere, & exhibere coràm, Censura utilior tua æquiorque Omni vel satirarum acerbitate, Omni vel rigidissimo cachinno."