In Mr. Emerson we have a poet and a profoundly religious man, who is really and entirely undaunted by the discoveries of science, past, present or prospective. In his case, poetry, with the joy of a Bacchanal, takes her graver brother, science, by the hand, and cheers him with immortal laughter. By Emerson scientific conceptions are continually transmuted into the finer forms and warmer lines of an ideal world.—Professor Tyndall, Fragments of Science.
Sage of Monticello (The), Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, whose country seat was at Monticello.
As from the grave where Henry sleeps,
From Vernon’s weeping willow,
And from the grassy pall which hides
The Sage of Monticello ...
Virginia, o’er thy land of slaves
A warning voice is swelling.
Whittier, Voices of Freedom (1836).
Sage of Samos (The), Pythagŏras, a native of Samos (B.C. 584-506).
Sages (The Seven). (See [Seven Wise Men of Greece].)
Sag´ittary, a monster, half man and half beast, described as “a terrible archer, who neighs like a horse, and with eyes of fire which strike men dead like lightning.” Any deadly shot is a sagittary.—Guido delle Colonna (thirteenth century), Historia Troyana Prosayce Composita (translated by Lydgate).
The dreadful Sagittary,
Appals our numbers.
Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (1602).
(See also Othello, act i. sc. 1, 3. The barrack is so called from the figure of an archer over the door.)
Sagramour le De´sirus, a knight of the Round Table.—See Launcelot du Lac and [Morte d’Arthur].
Sailor King (The), William IV. of Great Britain (1765, 1830-1837).