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

Come to these shades, these airs that stir the screen Of whispering branches and their murmurs set To Philomel's enamored canzonet: Choose this for thine own land, thy loved demesne!

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

You find not the apostrophes, and so miss the accent; let me supervise the canzonet.

From Canterbury Pieces by Butler, Samuel