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
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
He takes his lute and sings an Italian canzonet which has the desired effect.
From The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
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
In lighter vein is the canzonet to the lady who swore by her eyes, a custom which was rather common according to the tales of chivalry so popular shortly before this time.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
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