Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 | Page 4

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-- {196}
"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 w?re, 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 continuance."
Though not given as a quotation, this passage is no doubt borrowed from Baader, as quoted by Archdeacon Hare in a note to his _Sermons on the Mission of the Comforter_,--
"Nations, like individuals, may get free and rid of certain prejudices, beliefs, customs, abuses, &c., in two ways. They may really have risen above them, or they may have fallen below them and become too bad for them."
In a volume of tracts (Class mark Gg. 5. 27.) in St. John's College Library, Cambridge, is a copy of Nicolas Carr's edition of the Olynthiacs and Philippics of Demosthenes, (4to. London, Henry Denham 1571.). As Carr died before the work was published, his friends wrote a number of commemorative pieces in Greek and Latin, prose and verse, which are annexed to the volume. Amongst the rest, Barth. Dodyngton wrote a copy of Greek elegiacs, and a Latin prose epistle. On Dodyngton, Baker has written the following note:--
"Barthol. Dodyngtonus in Com. Middlesex. natus, admissus fuit Discipulus Coll. Jo. pro Fundatrice an. 1548.--Idem admissus Socius, Apr. 8, an. 1552.--Idem admissus Socius Senior, an. 1558.--Idem admissus Socius Major Coll. Trin. Oct. 29, an. 1580."
In the same volume is note on Cheke:--
"Joan. Cheke admissus Socius Coll. Jo. Cant., Mar. 26, an. 21. Henrici 8'vi."
Another tract in the same volume is "Exodus, &c., a Sermon Preach't Sept. 12, 1675. By occasion of the much lamented Death of that Learned and Reverend Minister of Christ, Dr. Lazarus Seaman."--By William Jenkyn. After Dr. Seaman's name Baker adds, "some time Master of Peter House." Of Jenkyn he says: "Gul. Jenkin Coll. Jo. admissus in Matriculam Academi? (designatus Joannensis), Jul. 3, an. 1628."
J.E.B. Mayor.
St. John's College, Cambridge.
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PARALLEL PASSAGES.
I believe the following have not been hitherto noticed in "NOTES AND QUERIES."
"Nec mirum, quod divina natura dedit agros, ars humana ?didicavit urbes."--Varro, R. R. iii. 1.
"God made the country and man made the town, What wonder then," &c.--_The Task_, i.
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"[Greek: O de Kritias ... ekaleito idiotaes men en philosophois, philosuph s de en idiotais.]"--_Schol. in Timoeum. Platonis_.
"Sparsum memini hominem inter scholasticos insanum, inter sanos scholasticum."--Seneca, Controv. i 7., _Excerpt. ex Controv._ ii.
"Lord Chesterfield is a Wit among Lords, and a Lord among Wits."--Johnsoniana.
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"[Greek: Ostis eim ego; Meton, On oiden Hellas cho Kolonos.]"
Aristophanes, _The Birds_, 997.
"Under the Tropics is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath received our yoke."
_Martinus Scriblerus_, Ch. xi.
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"Pandite, atque aperite propere januam hanc Orci, obsecro: Nam equidem haud aliter esse duco: quippe quo memo advenit Nisi quem spes reliqu��re omnes."
Plautus, _Bacchis_, Act iii Sc. 1.
"Per me si va nella citt�� dolente
Lasciate ogni speranza, voi che intrate."
Dante, _Inferno_, iii. 1-9.
W.B.D.
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FOLK LORE.
_Power of Prophecy._--MR. AUG. GUEST (Vol. ii., p. 116.) will perhaps accept--as a small tribute to his interesting communication on the subject of that "power of prophecy" which I apprehend to be still believed by many to exist during certain lucid