SADDER.—He went like one that hath been stunned,
A sadder and a wiser man
Coleridge.—The Ancient Mariner, last verse.
SAGE.—’Twas thus, by the cave of the mountain afar,
No
more with himself or with nature at war,
Beattie.—The Hermit, Verse I. Line 5.
SAINT.—Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
Bunyan.—Pilg. Prog., Part I.
’Tis from high life high characters are drawn,
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
Pope.—Moral Essays; to Temple, Epi. I. Line 136.
For virtue’s self may too much zeal be had;
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Pope.—To Murray, Epi. VI. of Horace; Line 26.
SAINTS.—And saints, who taught and led the way to heaven.
Tickell.—On the Death of Addison.