 | 1921 - 40 pages
...of others, and to make you seem vulgar and "horrid." Use your handkerchief. THE STREET-CAR Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. — Earl of Roscommon. 1) Avoid rushing ahead of others to secure a seat in a street-car, or... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...SL CLEMENS (Mark Twain) — Memoranda. PAINE'S Biography of Mark Twain. Vol. III. P. 1513 2 Immodest 'f~Nw'=g k ,W 1 L j\eG2.x(F > V} sense. WENTWORTH DILLON— Essay on Translated Verse. L. 113. 3 Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - 1925 - 566 pages
...literature was not without its influence in England. We have quoted elsewhere Roscommon's lines : Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense, and compared them with Art Poetique, II, 175 ff. Boileau with Rapin and Bossuet proved great... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...and breadth, the bigness which you see. Pilgrims Progress: Apology for his Book. J. BUNYAN. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. . But foul descriptions are offensive still, F,ither for being like or being ill. Essay on Translated... | |
 | Fernando Palazzi, Silvio Spaventa Filippi - 1927 - 994 pages
...Schòne nicht noch schòner machen ? 5769. La pudeur est une question d'éclairage. 5770. Immodest words admit of no defence, | For want of decency is want of sense. 5771. Punctuality, said Louis XIV, is thè politeness of Kings. It is also thè duty of gentlemen,... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1895 - 510 pages
...persons "of every profession educated at Edinburgh, excepted." Quoting the lines of Pope :— " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense." He remarks:— " Now is not want of sense, when a man has the mis" fortune to be so circumstanced,... | |
 | T. R. Steiner - 1975 - 174 pages
...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?... | |
 | 272 pages
...otherwise. Indeed such allusions are, in general, evidences of frivolity : as the poot remarks, " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense." A Student in Botany, — The dodril is the name of the poisonous plant, which sustains its... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...on Translated Verse Choose an author as you choose a friend. 9618 Essay on Translated Verse Immodest The Gracehoper was always jigging ajog, hoppy on akkant sense. 9619 Essay on Translated Verse The multitude is always in the wrong. ROSE Billy 1899-1966 9620... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...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,... | |
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Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense. 
