rhythmus
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I wrote in the greatest hurry and fury, and sent it to you the day after; so, doubtless, there will be some awful constructions, and a rather lawless conscription of rhythmus.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
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 James Hogg
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 John Black
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 John Black
They register less completely, it seems to me, because the departure is too sudden in the rhythmus of the artist.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
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