 | 1876 - 892 pages
...expressions appear to have been imitated by Boileau in his " Art Poétique." Koscommon says :— " Immodest words admit of no defence For want of decency is want of sense." Put this side by side with the French poet's words :— " Quoique vous écrivez, évitez la bassesse,... | |
 | University magazine - 1876 - 828 pages
...expressions appear to have been imitated by Boileau in hie " Art Poétique." Koscommon says :— " Immodest words admit of no defence For want of decency is want of sense." Put this side by side with the French poet's words :— " Quoique vous écrivez, évitez la bassesse,... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - Quotations, Latin - 1884 - 694 pages
...be used, is unworthy even of a human being. Earl of Roscommon (" Essay on Translated Verse "):— " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense." A LIMIT TO BE SET TO OUK AMUSEMENTS. There is a certain limit to be observed even in our amusements,... | |
 | W. H. Davenport Adams - 1885 - 434 pages
...of surprise to find a writer in Charles IL's reign putting forward a plea on behalf of decency :—. “Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. What moderate fops would rake the park or stews, Who among troopsof faultless nymphs may choose? Variety... | |
 | Thomas Hunter - Home schooling - 1884 - 670 pages
...rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. 102. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. 103. Love is master of all arts, And puts it into human hearts The strangest things to say and do.... | |
 | Maxims - 1887 - 1332 pages
...He keeps his word as the sun keeps butter. Dutch 73. Ill words are bellows to a slackening fire. 74. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. 75. It is bitter fare to eat one's own words. Dan. 76. It takes many words to fill a sack. Dan. 77.... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 282 pages
...sober man would tie usluinicd of. Bp. WiiHnx, Natural Religion, I. 7. 189 Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency Is want of sense. Jiofcommoti, Translated Verse, 1.113. immodestly (i-mod'est-li), adt: In an immodest manner. immodesty... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...gestures to her purpose frame, The guiltless man with guile to entertain Т WANT OF. DECENCY. Openser, 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 in... | |
 | Readers - 1892 - 216 pages
...will run 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 such word... | |
 | Readers - 1892 - 216 pages
...will run 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 such word... | |
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Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense ; 
