"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 
Hearing the tale makes the Wedding Guest "
sadder and
wiser man" because he learns that neither he nor the world is as innocent as either seems. ....
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Differing Interpretations
.... and in those two closing stanzas the tenses are mixed again: He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn; A
sadder and a
wiser man Even ....
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Various Literary Characters
.... The Mariner is offering a warning in the form of his story, and the wedding guest does heed the words and emerges a changed man, a "
sadder and
wiser man." D. ....
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William Dean Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham
.... Lapham's rise is from a greedy man with too much pride to a
sadder but
wiser man, one who is much more thoughtful and considerate and appreciative of life's ....
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10
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The intellectual world view of the 19th Century
.... He becomes a
sadder but
wiser (and, perhaps, somewhat weightier) man, and can therefore end the novel by returning more or less to his natural trajectory in ....
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner & Frankenstein
.... He leaves the scene with knowledge, stained, "He went like one that hath been stunned, and is of sense forlorn: A
sadder and a
wiser man, he rose the morrow ....
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
.... The narrators are
wiser but
sadder. They are not as certain as they were that human beings are good or that goodness will triumph over evil. Conrad, Joseph. ....
(902
4
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English Adaptations of Plays by Moliere
.... Moliere does not find it essential that Arnolphe emerge from losing Agnes
sadder, nobler,
wiser; it is funnier, indeed, if he does not. ....
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37
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Trash TV
.... Almost naively, as it may be said from the
sadder-but-
wiser perspective of 1998, Keller (who is writing in 1993) advocates the inculcation and incorporation of ....
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Heart of Darkness & Nostromo
.... even a sign of Marlow's transformation into a more compassionate and
wiser character .... one to have survived with some hope of becoming a better, if
sadder and far ....
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