canzonet
Example Sentences
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"Much better," observed Joungevello, the minstrel; "I shall write a canzonet in her praise, and sing it before the king."
From Windsor Castle by William Harrison Ainsworth
With your leave, I will try a canzonet I learned in London.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
How we sang together the old-fashioned canzonet, 'Love in thine eyes forever plays'?
From A Romance of the Republic by Lydia Maria Francis Child
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 John Addington Symonds
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
