canzonet
Example Sentences
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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
Etienne sang once more the pretty canzonet, with a new expression, a new meaning.
From The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac
You find not the apostrophes, and so miss the accent; let me supervise the canzonet.
From Canterbury Pieces by Samuel Butler
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
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
