I make no further comment upon the singing, nor the cause of it; but in the cool of the evening when the air was stilland he usually came in the eveningI often heard the cadences of his song with a thrill of pleasure.

STYLE, elegance universally diffused, iii. 243; foreign phrases dragged in, iii. 343, n. 3; Hume and Mackintosh on English prose, iii. 257, n. 3; Johnson's dislike of Gallicisms, i. 439; metaphors, iii. 174; iv. 386, n. 1; peculiar to every man, iii. 280; seventeenth century style bad, iii. 243; studiously formed, i. 225; Temple gave cadence to prose, iii. 257; unharmonious periods, iii. 248; which is the best?

Together they had read Keats for the first wonderful time; together learned Shakespeare's Sonnets by heart; together rolled out over tavern-tables the sumptuous cadences of De Quincey.

I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence.

To the objection founded on the formal and uniform recurrence of the measure, he alleges the facility of varying it, by throwing the cadence upon different parts of the line, by breaking it into hemistichs, or by running the sense into another line, so as to make art and order appear as loose and free as nature.

Byron's choice of this measure may have been suggested by Whistlecraft; but, he had studied its cadence in Pulci, and the Novelle Galanti of Casti, to whom he is indebted for other features of his satire; and he added to what has been well termed its characteristic jauntiness, by his almost constant use of the double rhyme.

If marching in double time, turn to the right about, taking four steps in place, keeping the cadence, and then step off with the left foot.

His voice, too, and that of Kirby's, touched him like music,low, even, with chording cadences.

It brought back dear memories of glorious April mornings on Long Island, when through the singing of robin and song-sparrow comes the piercing cadence of the meadowlark; and of the far northland woods in June, fragrant with the breath of pine and balsam-fir, where sweetheart sparrows sing from wet spruce thickets and rapid brooks rush under the drenched and swaying alder- boughs.

But compare the Idylls of the King, for all their dignity and lavish art, their sweet cadences, their mellifluous flow, with the early fragment in the same manner, the Morte d'Arthur, and you become aware that some exquisite haunted quality has slipped away from the later work which made the Morte d'Arthur one of the most perfect poems of the century.

At the command MARCH, given as either foot strikes the ground, advance and plant the other foot; bring up the foot in rear and continue the cadence by alternately raising each foot about 2 inches and planting it on line with the other.

Lord Kames also contrasts cadence with accent; but, by the latter term, he seems to have meant something different from our ordinary accent.

I loved thee in my lonely childhood well, On the sea-shore, when day's last purple smile Slept on the waters, and their hollow swell And dying cadence lent a deeper spell Unto thine ocean pictures.

The extent in which Dryden reformed our poetry, is most readily proved by an appeal to the ear; and Dr. Johnson has forcibly stated, that "he knew how to choose the flowing and the sonorous words; to vary the pauses and adjust the accents; to diversify the cadence, and yet preserve the smoothness of the metre."

These he chants forth with a loud voice, and long, drawling cadence, seated sideways on his mule, who seems to listen with infinite gravity, and to keep time, with his paces, to the tune.

" "True, Mrs. Leith Fairfax," he rejoined, echoing the cadence of her sentence.

At one of the organ tones which finished a cadence, Azouras started, and blinked quickly with her eyelids, and a light sigh showed that she came back to herself and her friend, from her vague contemplative state of mind.

The hollow cave, that once hath known Echo's lone voice, can ne'er forget But givesthough parting years have flown The wild responsive cadence yet.

But we, like you, follow the cadence, finding ourselves between Scylla and Charybdis: either you reject us or the government rejects us.

Every grave and haunting cadence from the piano brought to her mind, flickering and quick, like fire, a darting question, and every one she stamped out midway, with an effort of the will.

Mark, when they play, how our fine fops advance The mighty merits of their men of France, Keep time, cry Bon, and humour the cadence.

The instructor, when necessary, indicates the cadence of the step by calling ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, or LEFT, RIGHT, the instant the left and right root, respectively, should be planted.

Shall we trot again?" Everybody assented, the cavalryman and Versatilia set off, the others followed as best they might, the beauty "going to pieces" in a minute or two, according to the master, the society young lady stiffening visibly, losing the cadence of the trot very soon, but making no outcry as she was tossed about uncomfortably, and not bending her head to look at her reins, as Versatilia did.

Yes, and there was still another sound which mingled its solemn cadences with the waking and sleeping dreams of my boyhood.

I remember once going to dine at the house of a great musician; I was a minute or two before the time, and I found him sitting in his room at a grand piano, playing the last cadence of some simple piece, unknown to me.