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Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense.

The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 215
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The Critical Works of John Dennis, Volume 1

John Dennis - 1939 - 560 pages

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A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from ..., Volume 10

Henry Louis Mencken - 1942 - 1376 pages

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Thought, Volume 23

Wilfrid Parsons, Francis Xavier Talbot, Gerald Groveland Walsh - 1948 - 784 pages

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Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities: The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving ...

Robert Smith Surtees - 1911 - 244 pages

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Major American Writers, Volume 1

Howard Mumford Jones, Ernest Erwin Leisy, Richard M. Ludwig - 1952 - 1956 pages

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Vorstudien zu einer Geschichte des komischen Epos

Karlernst Schmidt - 1953 - 218 pages

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The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry

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Joel Elias Spingarn - 1957 - 378 pages

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Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society

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,...

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The Pulpit Commentary, Volume 3

Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1899 - 460 pages

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