 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 страници
...hart, Habitual innocence adorns her thoughts, But your neglcfl mud anfwer for her faults-. Immodetl words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is...of fenfe. What moderate fop would rake the Park or dews, Who among troops of faultlefs nymphs may choofe ? Variety of fuch is to be found : Take then... | |
 | 1804 - 554 страници
...in the following lines, not at all the worfe for being now perhaps lorn- what common-place : — " Immodeft words admit of no defence. For want of decency is want of fenfe."* Should you, Sir, think that the foregoing (ubjeft merits a place in your excellent paper of the Jelter,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 страници
...pernicious bait, K.ibitua) innocence adorns her thoughts ; But your necjle-ft muftznfwer for her fauits. Immodeft words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want cf ftn e. [ftewt. What mod'rate fop would rake the Park cr Who among troops of faultleis nymphs may... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 758 страници
...fecittary larJmal Abp. of Toledo, in a dtpartmcnt of ^*'jith required a facility in »%titiiig with. Immodeft words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of fenfe. * SECURE, atfj. [frcun,,, Latin.] i. F-ee from fear ; exempt from terrnur ; eafy ; aflured. — Confidence... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 414 страници
...bait,— Habitual innocence adorns her thoughts, 111 But your neglect must answer for her faults. Immodest words admit of no defence, For, want of decency, is want of sense. What mod'rate fop would rake the Park or stews, — Who among troops of faultless nymphs, may... | |
 | James Lackington - 1808 - 200 страници
...talked loosely in the absence of the ladies ; ie repeated the two well known lines of Pope Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. . . _- : I also observed that he wasdispleased with aneiher of the company for speaking disrespectfully... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 страници
...bait, Habitual innocence adorns her thoughts ; But your neglect must answer for her faults. Immodest ws, Their adverse breasts with tusks oblique they wound, W sense, [stews. What mod'rate fop would rake the Park or Who among troops of faultless nymphs may Variety... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 страници
...a speaker should doom any word signiGcant of thought, is that which moral purity requires. Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. Obtain then a command over the language, in which you are to speak, as extensive as possible.... | |
 | 1810 - 480 страници
...spirit of moderation and calmness, reminding him, in the language of a poet of our own, that "Immodest words admit of no defence; "for want of decency is want of sense." Would not this be as likely a method as any to convince him of the immoral tendency of the... | |
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Immodest words admit of no defence ; For want of decency is want of sense. 
