Word: lilt
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...invented several funny situations and has written more than one witty line, even if the wit smacked at times of the taste of the Restoration. The songs, however, were all fairly clever, and they were vitally connected with their context in the play. The music was excellent,--it had lilt, melody, and originality...
...Cronyn's "Dionysos Eleutherios" is stirring verse of high order. The lilt and the changing mood of the poem are admirable. If the reviewer may be permitted to carp, he would add merely that the moral seems a bit forced and that perhaps no specific moral at all would be better than one which seems to suggest a temperance tract...