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
She could give to French prose an Italian rhythmus.
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)
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
I rendered it from the French version, preserving the rhythmus and the measure of the original.”
From Servian Popular Poetry by Bowring, John
It is remarkable that he, beyond all other rhetoricians of that era, cultivated the rhythmus of his periods.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James
