Kames, Henry Home: Elements Of Criticism (Vol. 2) (Basil: Printed and sold by J. J. Tourneisen, 1795) [VD18 90784596]

8 R I D. I C U L E. Ch. XII.
ridiculous ! To be pleas’d with what pleases the crowd I
Now, when I laugh I always laugh alone.
Double Dealer, aft i. fc. 4.
So fliarp-sighted is pride in blemissies , and so
willing to be gratified, that it takes up with the
very slighted improprieties; such as a blunder by
a foreigner in speaking our language, espe.cially is
the blunder can bear a sense that resseds on the
speaker :
Quickly. The young man is an honest man.
Caius. What shall de honest man do in my closet ?
dere is no honest man dat shall come in my closet.
Merry Wives of Windsor.
Love-fpeeches are finely ridiculed in the follow-?
ing paslage.
Ouoth he , My faith as adamantine,
As"'chains of destiny, I’ll maintain;
True as Apollo ever spoke ,
Or oracle from heart os oak ;
And if you’ll give my flame but vent,
Now in close hugger mugger pent.
And shine upon me but benignly ,
With that one, and that other pigsneye,
The sun and day shall sooner part,
Than love , or you , {hake oft my heart ;
The sun , that shall no more dispense
His own, but your bright influence :
I’ll carve your name on barks of trees ,
"Vyith. true love-knots, and ssourishes;