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Smooth, almost seductive moments surprise in “The Cure,” but when Medea is weaving her spells, mellifluence gives way to a ritualistic, mechanical savagery, unnatural and feral.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2015

Let it, however, be always remembered, that Pope gave the first idea of mellifluence, and produced a softer and sweeter cadence than before belonged to the English couplet.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

The mellifluence of these lines, written on a harp, is totally lost in the translation:— Within the concave of its womb is found The magic scale of soul-enchanting sound.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828 by Various

Not a stylist, as measured by the highest Elizabethan standards of charm and mellifluence, he possessed a clearness and directness which win the modern reader.

From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace

The English of these lines seems to the writer of this to fall upon the ear with hardly less mellifluence than the fine latinity of Wranghams’s.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)