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" Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense. "
A Collection of English Songs: With an Appendix of Original Pieces - Seite 7
von Alexander Dalrymple - 1796 - 221 Seiten
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The Quarterly Review, Band 28

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 580 Seiten
...check which is imposed on licentious expressions. Pope says, in one of his earliest works — Immodest words admit of no defence, . For want of decency is want of sense. Yet, in riper age, and in his intercourse with ladies of the highest rank, and, we are willing...
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The Life of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; Together ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1823 - 310 Seiten
...sense. ' If you ask why I say with less propriety, I must give you the two lines together : Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. Now want of sense, when a man has the misfortune to be so circumstanced, is it not a kind of...
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The Quarterly Review, Band 28

1823 - 582 Seiten
...check which is imposed on licentious expressions. Pope says, in one of his earliest works — Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. • Yet, in riper age, and in his intercourse with ladies of the highest rank, and, we are willing...
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Five Years' Residence in the Canadas: Including a Tour Through Part ..., Band 1

Edward Allen Talbot - 1824 - 848 Seiten
...exonerate me from the very semblance of the charge contained in the often-quoted couplet, Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. If I assure you, that this class of Canadians are exceedingly gross in their manners,' and generally...
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Wanderings of Childe Harolde: A Romance of Real Life : Interspersed ..., Band 1

John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 268 Seiten
...conversation he was loose, silly, and obscene. To him Pope's couplet could be well applied : — Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. The language of youthful depravity is doubly / doubly disgusting when flowing from the lips...
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Noctes Atticæ, or Reveries in a garret; containing observations on men and ...

Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 Seiten
...Dr. Arbulhnot, though the former had totally forgotten his own sensible and modest remark, Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. It is certainly too gross for republication on any account. The Laurel. It is the theory of...
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Noctes Atticae: Or, Reveries in a Garret; Containing Short, and Chiefly ...

Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 Seiten
...Dr. Arbnthnot, though the former had totally forgotten his own sensible and modest remark, Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. It is certainly too gross for republication on any account. The Laurel. It is the theory of...
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Wanderings of Childe Harold; a romance of real life, Band 1

John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 264 Seiten
...conversation he was loose, silly, and obscene. To him Pope's couplet could be well applied : — Immoiiest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. • The language of youthful depravity is doubly doubly disgusting when flowing from the lips...
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The Evangelical rambler [by T. East]., Band 3

1825 - 448 Seiten
...FRANCIS WESTLEY, 10, STATIONERS' COURT, AND AVE-MARIA LANE. ON THEATRICAL AMUSEMENTS. PART IV. " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense." Roscommon. Mr. Lewellin. " But, Sir, though I have consented to follow you in this digression...
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A Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical and ..., Band 5

John Platts - 1826 - 882 Seiten
...makes an apology in a Latin epigram addressed to the grammarians ; but, as the poet observes, Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. FRISONE BENZIO, an Italian poet, was a native of Assiso. Deformed in person, he compensated...
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