Nugae literariae: prose and verse

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fruit ut fource of peculiarity. There is high sanction for this in Grook and Latin poetry; and in our purest epics it is done. Tho Fronch constantly practise it in pronouncing their language,

pik 'em. These are indeed vulgar fractions. Letters are frequently interclianged, and in establishingour etymologies We must recollect that in Saxon there is no k,

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rous pUn Was made by Scaliger Upon the resolution of v, intob: and though he referred to Gascony, it is of great account

in some of the metamorphoses of SaXon into modern WordS,

The diphthong ae is a great favo urite with the Saxon vocabulary, and, Presuming it long, We have drsed for dread. Spsere for

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immediately that they must not tarry to Walli and ruta, but rollhead over heeis. Endus is somelimes put for forever. A dissipatod man in his habiis is Mat a looso end:V a person os involved circumstances is at the far end. Fond. This is an appellation sor an idiot. Something

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brave as Agamemnon, -- carent Vate Sacro. Cassius says in Julius Caesar :

Maddie. This most common Word is heard in various associations. A person under the influence of fener is maduled. When we are overWhelmed with the daring est roratery of sonaeone Who takes us aback, What Word but this can represent our mingled emotions os distike, Wonder, and strange amaZement p

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ON THE YORS SI IRE DIALECT.

nteve, Whicli is the way Jamieson spelis it. Here it is pro- Dounced more With an α; and determinod to be poetic, a violent man threatens to have his nave,-the poetry might be retainedWith a more correct prosody, to heave hiS nieve. Flite. Though this active veri, osten puis to flight thoso who ure found within iis range, it has nothing to do with routor Wings. The signification is to scold. It is taken Dona Flitan,

are more endurable than this species.