 | John Camden Hotten - 1865 - 360 ページ
...been carefully excluded, although street-talk, unlicensed and unwritten, abounds in these. "Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense." It appears from the calculations of philologists, that there are 38,000 words in the English... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 ページ
...have been fools. Artemlsa in the Town to Chloe in the Country. EARL OF ROSCOMMON. 1634-1685. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. Essay on Translated Verse. THOMAS OTWAY. 1651-1685. O woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 ページ
...finds too painful an endeavour. Content to dwell in decencies for ever. Pope, Jf. Es. n. 163. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. Roscommon, Essay I. DECISION— see Dispatch, Promptitude. Away, then ; work with boldness and... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - 1894 - 612 ページ
...395, in the latter year 311. In 1891 it was 193. In this register also occur the lines :— " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. " In the marriage register the woman signs herself first by her maiden name, and then adds "... | |
 | Henry Bower - 1868 - 48 ページ
...There are a few passages of this character in the First Book. Though I am fully aware that " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense ;" yet I do not feel myself at liberty to eliminate, or to give an expurgated version of the... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 ページ
...And, put among his wants but shame, To all the world may lay his claim. BUTLER'S Hudibraa. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. ROSCOMMON. To glory some advance a lying claim, Thieves of renown, and pilferers of fame ; Their... | |
 | 1887 - 454 ページ
...truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. JOHN DRYDRN. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. EAUI, OF ROSOOMMON. Defer uot till to-morrow, to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never... | |
 | 1891 - 556 ページ
...her purpose frame, The guiltless man with guile to entertain Т Openser, DECENCY. WANT OF. Immodest words admit of no defence For want of decency is want of sense. Earl of lioscommon. DECEPTION. CHARACTERISTICS OP. The most deceitful persons «pend their Lives... | |
 | 1892 - 216 ページ
...itself to death. Good actions ennoble us, and we are sons of our own deeds. — Cervantes. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. — Roscommon. In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there's no... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 ページ
...wolf by the ears ; for I know not either how ю get rid of him or keep him in restraint. Ter. Immodest fer, / Never to hope again. Henry K///., iii. 2. О hush th sense. RosCOtfttnon. Immoritur studüs, et amore senescit habend! — He is killing himself with his... | |
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Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense. 
