 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 ページ
...more indecency and blasphemy, than I ever saw collected in one single volume.' Sia WM. JONES. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. HOSCOMMON. Indecency is less than immodesty, but more than indelicacy : they both respect the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 ページ
...general : but décence and gracefulness can be only in the particulars in doing the good. Sprat. Immodest words admit of no defence , For want of decency is want of sense. Roscvmmm. Performed what friendship, justice, truth require T What could he more, but decently... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 ページ
...are opposite to us, is the nicest commendation than can be given us — St. ENremmd. CLXXV. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. Boscommon. CLXXVI. to form manners, to restrain excesses, to encourage industry, to prevent... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 ページ
...are opposite to us, is the nicest commendation than can be given us.—Sf Evrcmond. CLXXV. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. Roscommon. CLXXVI. I cannot but observe, to the honour of our country, that the good qualities... | |
 | Ethelinda Margaretta Potts - 1832 - 256 ページ
...with a poetic f fame ; Perhaps we were not in the wrong, As Piety inspired his song J, * " Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense." t Which Dr. Johnson says it does in the Creation. J History of Kensington. — They attacked... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 ページ
...Doctor of the Clifton. j Church, (translation), 373. Sylvester, Lord Glenbervie, 1823. II. MAY. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.— Roscommon. acts. LAMBERT SIMNEL, the imposter, is crowned in Christ Church, Dublin, by the... | |
 | 1832 - 240 ページ
...eightpence for sending a letter which only raises our contempt. Th« FOOL ought to be taught that " Immoral words admit of no defence. For want of decency is want of sense." Miss S. OCTAVIUS— Lines on Woman. ("Hands ihe letter to Miss B.) He promises, if they appear,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense. 
