rhythmus

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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

The musical impression made by a period consisting of long and short syllables arranged in a certain order is what the Greeks called rhythmus, the Latins numerus, and we melody or measure.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

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

What is a little extraordinary, there is a want of rhythmus and cadence in what they write without the help of metrical rules.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

This defect is held by the Experimentalist to result from inattention to rhythmus: so much he thinks has been proved by Mr. Thelwall.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James