| David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 Seiten
...constituting a most solemn imprecation. Charles Dickens, 1849-50, David Copperfield, Ch. 3 43:18 Immodest words admit of no defence, / For want of decency is want of sense. Wenrworth Dillon, 1684, Essay on Translated Verse, "3 43:19 Swearin' belongs to some thrades,... | |
| Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 Seiten
...is far from the first. Lord Roscommon, in his Essay on Translated Verse (1684), declared: Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. Thackeray, as editor, rejected a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning because it contained the... | |
| Ashley Montagu - 2001 - 388 Seiten
...was wrong. Damns will never cease to have their day. CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Four-Letter Words Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. WENTWOHTH DILLON, Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse, 1684 Oh perish the use of the... | |
| Andrew Carpenter - 2003 - 628 Seiten
...Bait, Habitual Innocence adorns her Thoughts But your neglect must answer for her Faults. Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of Decency is want of Sense. What mod'rate Fop would rake the Park or Stews," Who among Troops of faultless Nymphs may chuse?... | |
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