canzonet
Example Sentences
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How we sang together the old-fashioned canzonet, 'Love in thine eyes forever plays'?
From A Romance of the Republic by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
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
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
You find not the apostrophes, and so miss the accent; let me supervise the canzonet.
From Canterbury Pieces by Butler, Samuel
"Much better," observed Joungevello, the minstrel; "I shall write a canzonet in her praise, and sing it before the king."
From Windsor Castle by Ainsworth, William Harrison
