What clownishness!

Present what you will, grammar directs the mind immediately to a consideration of the sense; and, if properly taught, always creates a discriminating taste which is not less offended by specious absurdities, than by the common blunders of clownishness.

Ballad verse may in some degree imitate the language of a simpleton, and become popular by clownishness, more than by elegance: as, "