Silence more musical than any song. 1692 CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI:  Rest.

Silence accompany’d; for beast and bird,
They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
She all night long her amorous descant sung;
Silence was pleas’d.
1693
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. iv., Line 598.

There was silence deep as death,
And the boldest held his breath
For a time.
1694
CAMPBELL:  Battle of the Baltic.

There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,—­ In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found. 1695 HOOD:  Sonnet, Silence.

=Silver.=

Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear, That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops. 1696 SHAKS.:  Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Similarity.=

Like will to like:  each creature loves his kind, Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind. 1697 HERRICK:  Aph.  Like Loves His Like.

=Simplicity.=

And simple truth miscall’d simplicity,
And captive good attending captive ill.
1698
SHAKS.:  Sonnet lxvi.

Rich in saving common-sense,
And, as the greatest only are. 
In his simplicity sublime.
1699
TENNYSON:  Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, St. 4.

=Sin.=

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhousell’d, disappointed, unaneled.
1700
SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5.

One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder’s as near to lust, as flame to smoke. 1701 SHAKS.:  Pericles, Act i., Sc. 1.

In lashing sin, of every stroke beware, For sinners feel, and sinners you must spare. 1702 CRABBE:  Tales, Advice, Line 242.

But sad as angels for the good man’s sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.
1703
CAMPBELL:  Pl. of Hope, Pt. ii., Line 357.

I waive the quantum o’ the sin,
  The hazard of concealing;
But, och! it hardens a’ within,
  And petrifies the feeling!
1704
BURNS:  Epistle to a Young Friend.

Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to.
1705
BUTLER:  Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., Line 215.

=Sincerity.=

I never tempted her with word too large,
But, as a brother to his sister, show’d
Bashful sincerity and comely love.
1706
SHAKS.:  Much Ado, Act iv., Sc. 1.

His nature is too noble for the world:  He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for ’s power to thunder.  His heart’s his mouth:  What his breast forges that his tongue must vent. 1707 SHAKS.:  Coriolanus, Act iii., Sc. 1.

=Singing.=

But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims.
1708
SHAKS.:  M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1.