canzonet

Example Sentences

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He swung away, singing a canzonet, and quickly vanished, while Brendon, overwhelmed by this extraordinary conversation, sat for an hour motionless and deep in thought.

From The Red Redmaynes by Phillpotts, Eden

Young Love's for us a farce that's played; Light canzonet and serenade No more may tempt us; Gray hairs but ill accord with dreams; From aught but sour didactic themes Our years exempt us.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Ah! who will take the bass parts in my canzonet now, I should like to know?

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

Etienne sang once more the pretty canzonet, with a new expression, a new meaning.

From The Hated Son by Balzac, Honoré de

The note to which Byron refers is on the canzonet 'Naö sei quem assella', "Thou hast an eye of tender blue."

From Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley