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
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
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
Even the irregularities of Shakspeare'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 Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, 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
