canzonet
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The little canzonet "J'aime mieux ma mie," is, I believe, the first Wordsworthian poem298 brought forward on philosophical principles to oppose the schools of art and affectation.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
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 Burton Egbert Stevenson
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 Ernest Hartley Coleridge
The sestina, a very elaborate canzonet, was invented in Provence and borrowed by the Italians.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
This was the meaning of last night's canzonet!
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
