 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 580 ページ
...check which is imposed on licentious expressions. Pope says, in one of his earliest works — Immodest words admit of no defence, . For want of decency is want of sense. Yet, in riper age, and in his intercourse with ladies of the highest rank, and, we are willing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1823 - 310 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... | |
 | 1823 - 582 ページ
...check which is imposed on licentious expressions. Pope says, in one of his earliest works — Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. • Yet, in riper age, and in his intercourse with ladies of the highest rank, and, we are willing... | |
 | Edward Allen Talbot - 1824 - 848 ページ
...exonerate me from the very semblance of the charge contained in the often-quoted couplet, Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. If I assure you, that this class of Canadians are exceedingly gross in their manners,' and generally... | |
 | John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 268 ページ
...conversation he was loose, silly, and obscene. To him Pope's couplet could be well applied : — Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. The language of youthful depravity is doubly / doubly disgusting when flowing from the lips... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 ページ
...Dr. Arbulhnot, though the former had totally forgotten his own sensible and modest remark, Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. It is certainly too gross for republication on any account. The Laurel. It is the theory of... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 ページ
...Dr. Arbnthnot, though the former had totally forgotten his own sensible and modest remark, Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. It is certainly too gross for republication on any account. The Laurel. It is the theory of... | |
 | John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 264 ページ
...conversation he was loose, silly, and obscene. To him Pope's couplet could be well applied : — Immoiiest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. • The language of youthful depravity is doubly doubly disgusting when flowing from the lips... | |
 | 1825 - 448 ページ
...FRANCIS WESTLEY, 10, STATIONERS' COURT, AND AVE-MARIA LANE. ON THEATRICAL AMUSEMENTS. PART IV. " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense." Roscommon. Mr. Lewellin. " But, Sir, though I have consented to follow you in this digression... | |
 | John Platts - 1826 - 882 ページ
...makes an apology in a Latin epigram addressed to the grammarians ; but, as the poet observes, Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. FRISONE BENZIO, an Italian poet, was a native of Assiso. Deformed in person, he compensated... | |
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Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense. 
