...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...

...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 "...

...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...

...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?...

...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...

...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 —...

...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...

...and to his imagination for his facts. SHERIDAN. — Speech in reply to Dundas. IMMODEST. — Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. ROSCOMMON. — Essay I. on Verse. IMPEACHMENT.— Sir Lucius G'Trigger, ungrateful as you are,...

...of sense. Ifyou ask why I say with less propriety, I must give vou the twt 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 misfort»Me to beoo circumstanced, is it not an excuse...

...indecent language in their own vernacular, since they do not, like Europeans, consider that . " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense ; She that brings fulsome objects to my view, As many old did do, and many new, With nauseous...