_Troil. and Cres._, Act. i. Sc. 2.

Whether I or your correspondents be right, will remain perhaps for ever
doubtful; but the flight that can discover a relationship between this
word and another pronounced[1] as nearly the same as the two languages
will admit of, and which gives at all events one sense, if not, as I
think, the primary one, is scarcely so eccentric as that which finds the
origin of a word signifying a loud sound, and fame, or rumor, in
"nisus"; not even _struggle_, in the sense of _contention_, an endeavour
an effort, a strain.

SAMUEL HICKSON.

St. John's Wood, June 15, 1850.

[Footnote 1: I do not think it necessary, here, to defend my
pronunciation of German; the expressions I now use being sufficient for
the purpose of my argument. I passed over CH.'s observation on this
subject, because it did not appear to me to touch the question.]

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MORE BORROWED THOUGHTS.

O many are the poets that are sown
By nature men endowed with highest gifts,
The vision and the facility divine,
Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse,
Nor having e'er, as life advanced, been led
by circumstance to take the height,