 | Ashley Montagu - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 388 pages
...Bob Acres was wrong. Damns will never cease to have their day. CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Four-Letter Words Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. WENTWOHTH DILLON, Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse, 1684 Oh perish the use of the four-leuer... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...esu); but he is far from the first. Lord Roscommon, in his Essay on Translated Verse (1684), declared: Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. Thackeray, as editor, rejected a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning because it contained the word harlot.... | |
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Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense. 
