 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1859 - 764 Seiten
...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 "... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1859 - 294 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 370 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Francis Train - 1862 - 88 Seiten
...course, it was the libertine — the seducer. The act is often accompanied with loud jests. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense! TJie Derby is the benefit day of the Shoulder hitter and the Pugilist. The rowdy scenes —... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 Seiten
...be the best. Let not austerity breed servile fear ; No wanton sound offend her virgin ear. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. Secure from foolish pride's affected state, And specious flattery's more pernicious bait ; Habitual... | |
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Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense. 
