 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 lehte
...that the alterations are numerous, and in all respects for the better. The famous couplet — Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense, stands thus in the first edition — Immodest words (whatever the pretence) Always want decency,... | |
 | Where - 1855 - 86 lehte
...scene 5. SHAKESPEARE. In the jetty curls ten thousand Cupid's play'd. Solomon, book ii. PRIOR. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. Essay on Translated Verse. ROSCOMMON. I could have better spared a better man. King Henry IV.,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 lehte
...wonted theams, And into glory peep. EARL OF ROSCOMMON. 1633-1684. . Essay on Translated Verse. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. JOHN DRYDEN. 1631-1700. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. Line 15. .None but the brave deserves the fair. Line... | |
 | Demoticus Philalethes, Ignacio Franchi Alfaro - 1856 - 412 lehte
...abhorrence it creates on a well constituted mind. The censure of Pope is totally disregarded : "Immodest words admit of no defence, " For want of decency is want of sense." The idioms made use of in Cuba are almost all taken" from Aiidalucia, and some from the other... | |
 | 1858 - 628 lehte
...Mr. Talbot.—" Perhaps not." Mr. Falkland. — " So I presume ; for, as the poet says — ' Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.' If, then, you would not like to hear a female read that play in a private party, especially... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1859 - 294 lehte
...been carefully excluded, although street-talk, unlicensed and unwritten, abounds in these. " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense." It appears from the calculations of philologists., that there are 38,000 words in the English... | |
 | 1859 - 764 lehte
...not of a character for discussion in these cottmuts, I TROW NOT. The oft quoted couplet— " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense," is from Lord Jtoscommon's Essay on Translated Verre. AXTIQCAHICS. For " faster Ems," see "... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 370 lehte
...which most critics have considered a blot upon the poem. FROM " AN ESSAY ON TRANSLATED VERSE." Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense. What moderate fop would rake the park or stews, Who among troops of faultless nymphs may choose?... | |
 | Alfred Newsom Niblett - 1861 - 204 lehte
...instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn."—Addison. MODESTY. " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense."—Roscommon. PERSEVERANCE. " A falling drop at last will cave a stone."—Lucretius. " How... | |
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Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense. 
