rhythmus
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The sound of the words, the accumulation of rhymes, and the rhythmus of the verse, form, as it were, the hollow music of a dreary witch-dance.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John
The Polish polkas and mazurkas, with their changing and fugitive rhythmus and their lively, uneven time, admirably184 embody the light and graceful spirit of this people.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
Hence arose short sentences; hence, the impossibility of the long, voluminous sweeps of beautiful rhythmus which we find in Cicero; hence, the animated form of apostrophe and crowded interrogations addressed to the audience.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James
Their movement kept time with the rhythmus of the declamation, and in this accompaniment the utmost grace and beauty were aimed at.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John
Even the irregularities of Shakespeare's versification are expressive; a verse broken off, or a sudden change of rhythmus, coincides with some pause in the progress of the thought, or the entrance of another mental disposition.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
