Word: rhythm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Charles Dickens who desired his friends, after his death, in editing his works to strike out here and there a phrase, so as to remove the rhythm and poetic motion of his prose compositions. If that editor of the Yale News who described "Eighty-four's Promenade," should leave such unlimited power to his biographers, we fear that the revised edition of his recent four-column article would suffer severe abridgment. That article is overflowing with poetic sentiments; the rich metaphors of Tom Moore are nowhere in comparison with this brilliant effusion of verbal pyrotechnics. Think, for instance...
SENIOR FORENSICS.Subjects for third Forensic: Has the progress of the arts and sciences contributed to corrupt or purify morals? Are there any other differences between prose and poetry than those of rhythm and meter? Ought members of the Cabinet to be responsible to Congress? Give Burke's argument in his speech on American Taxation (Burke's Works, Vol. II.) Section 1, today; Section 2, Feb. 28; Section 3, March 7; Section 4, March...
...there any other differences between prose and poetry than those of rhythm and metre...
Bits of worldly wisdom, flashes of wit, and shrewd estimates of human nature, go to make up the charming volume - too small, alas! - which bears the name of "Mother Goose's Melodies." And yet, with all her sense and all her wit, she had a fine ear for rhythm, and in "Four and Twenty Blackbirds" has given us the only pure Saturnian line in the language...
...reach; three is inclined to bucket, and does n't swing straight; five fails in reach; six's hands trouble him on the catch; seven does n't shoot quick enough or hold his hands tight; and eight is apt to overreach. All sliver out, bucket badly, and lack rhythm in movement...