I opened my lips, to offer a contradictory opinion; for my sense of the saneness of things, would not allow me to take the story literally; then I shut them again, without saying anything.

His later work in poetry and prose, devoted to the reconstruction of English history, is remarkable for the justness and saneness of its temper.

Yet it needed some relief from the very saneness of its rationalism, and it found the antidote to its vicious court life in the crystal springs of Castaly.