 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 370 pages
...passage 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? Variety of such is to be found... | |
 | Alfred Newsom Niblett - 1861 - 204 pages
...souls by 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 - United States - 1862 - 88 pages
...custom ? Of 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 — the brutal... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...and should 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... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...jests, 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, I own... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...Is want 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 for want... | |
 | Maxims - 1887 - 760 pages
...keeps his word as the sun keeps butter. Dutch. 73. Ill words are bellows to a slackening fire. 74. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. 507 75. It is bitter fare to eat one's own words. Dan. 76. It takes many words to fill a sack. Dan.... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 282 pages
...language, "Hs needful that the most immodcft word Be look'd upon and leani'd. Shal, t Hen. IV., IT. 4. Immodest words admit of no defence. For want of decency Is want of sense. Rotcutnmnn, Translated Verse, 1. 113. immodestly (i-mod'est-li), adv. In an immodest manner. immodesty... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not. Ootthe. IMMODESTY. A WANT OF SENSE. Immodest words admit of no defence For want of decency is want of sense. Ape. IMMORTALITY. ASPIRATIONS то. There is none of us but would bethought, throughout the whole course... | |
 | Readers - 1892 - 216 pages
...will run itself to death. Good actions ennoble us, and we are sons of our own deeds. — Cervantes. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. — Roscommon. In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there's no such word... | |
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Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense. 
