Which preposition to use with nonsence

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" Dear B.B.One word more of the picture verses, and that for good and all; pray, with a neat pen alter one line His learning seems to lay small stress on to His learning lays no mighty stress on to avoid the unseemly recurrence (ungrammatical also) of "seems" in the next line, besides the nonsence of "but" there, as it now stands.

Which preposition to use with  nonsence