canzonet

Example Sentences

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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 Kennedy, John P.

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 Saintsbury, George

Etienne sang once more the pretty canzonet, with a new expression, a new meaning.

From The Hated Son by Balzac, Honoré de

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 Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

"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