| Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 ページ
...bait, Habitual innocence adorns her thoughts ; But your negleet must answer for her faults. 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... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 ページ
...hait, Hahitual innoeence 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 moderate fop would rake the park or stews, Who among troops of faultless nymphs may choose... | |
| Theodore Edward Hook - 1836 - 348 ページ
...upon the interesting topic, and concluded by quoting to me that oft-repeated couplet : — " Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense." I — anxious to let her know that the lines were not, as they are very generally thought to... | |
| John Reynolds (of Vermont.) - 1839 - 348 ページ
...insults that were offered to her by those whose only excuse is, that they knew no better. " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense." She survived this train of abuse and cruelty, and the Governor and Council to their credit,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 342 ページ
...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... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 ページ
...spirit enough publicly to praise the Paradise Lost*." 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, Whoamong troops of faultless nymphs may choose... | |
| 1853 - 1048 ページ
...Alexander Pope, Esq., for we will not meddle with little men, expresses himself Ills:— "Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense." Dr. Franklin, I think, makes the following judicious emendation, " Immodest words •dmit but... | |
| William Goodman - 1843 - 342 ページ
...him ; so she took to herself two or rather one stage-player and a ropp-dancer." — Pepys. " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense." POPE Licentious scenes and incidents in plays were not then looked upon in that light by anybody,... | |
| William Goodman - 1845 - 340 ページ
...took to herself two actors, or rather one stage-player and a rope-dancer." — Pepys •" Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense." POPE Licentious scenes and incidents in plays were not then looked upon in that light by anybody,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 ページ
...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 he so circumstanced, is it not a kind of... | |
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