Book I, Chapter 6.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)
“Few are the women and maidens who would let themselves think that one could at the same time be joyous and modest. They are all bold and coarse in their speech, in their demeanor wild and lewd. That is now the fashion of being in good cheer. But it is specially evil that the young maiden folk are exceedingly bold of speech and bearing, and curse like troopers, to say nothing of their shameful words and scandalous coarse sayings, which one always hears and learns from another.”
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the "Pelagian" drinking song, p. 50
The Four Men: A Farrago (1911)
Source: Excerpts of letter to his first wife (14 July 1975)
Speech to the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce (12 January 1938), as quoted in The Last Three Miles : Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway (2007) by Steven Hart, p. 137.
Context: As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never hear a real American talk like that.
“And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon.”
Ill Omens.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)