will return to the subject. I cannot, however, conclude without
observing, that it would much add to the value of MR. NICHOLS'
compilation if he would extend it so as to embrace a description of the
floreal coronet of knighthood, the belt of honour, the helmet, scarf,
ring, spars, &c.,--all indeed, that the words "ad recipiendum a nobis
ARMA MILITARIA" implied in the ancient proclamations for taking the
order of knighthood. If MR. NICHOLS, in addition to this, will show also
wherein the knights of this equestrian quality differed from such
persons as were distrained "ad se milites faciendos," he will solve a
number of knotty difficulties in heraldic literature, and will enable
the public generally to understand that there are many more chivalrous
rights and privileges inherent in the subject than what is dreamt of in
the philosophy either of the court at St. James's, or the college on St.
Bennet's Hill.

ARMIGER.

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TENYSON.--COLERIDGE.--EXTRACT FROM BAKER'S MSS. ON BARTH. DODYNGTON, AND
WILLIAM JENKYN.

The well-known lines in Tenyson's _Locksley Hall_,--

"This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is, remembering happier things."

appear to be taken from Dante (_Inferno_, canto v. Verse 121.),--

"nessun maggior dolore,
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria."

which is imitated by other writers, quoted by Mr. Cary. (Chaucer,
_Troilus and Creseide_, iii. 1626. Marino, _Adone_, c. xiv., st. 100.
Fortinguerra, _Riciardetto_, c. xi. st. 83.)

In Coleridge's second _Lay Sermon_ (ed. 1839, p. 365.) the passage--
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"What are you," (a philosopher was once asked), "in consequence
of your admiration of these abstruse speculations?" He answered;
"What I am, it does not become me to say; but what thousands
are, who despise them, and even pride themselves on their
ignorance, I see, and tremble."

is a quotation from Schiller (_Werke_, vol. i., p. 414. 1838)

"AN DIE MUSE.

"Was ich ohne dich waere, ich weiss es nicht; aber mir
grauet,
Seh'ich, was ohne dich Hundert und Tausende sind."

In Appendix (B.) to Coleridge's first _Lay Sermon_ (p. 276.), we read,--

"An age or nation may become free from certain prejudices,
beliefs, and superstitious practices, in two ways. It may have
really risen above them; or it may have fallen below them, and
become too bad for their co