Canzonet

Longavile, the "canzonet" of Biron, and the far lovelier love-song of ❋ Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873)

I sometimes saw her, the adorable girl who sat quietly sewing at my table, wrapped in her meditations; the faint light from my window fell upon her and was reflected back in silvery rays from her thick black hair; sometimes I heard her young laughter, or the rich tones of her voice singing some canzonet that she composed without effort. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Percy sings a Spanish seguidilla, or a German lied, or a French romance, or a Neapolitan canzonet, which, I am bound to say, excites very little attention. ❋ Unknown (2006)

You find not the apostraphas, and so miss the accent: let me supervise the canzonet. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But the didactic ballad and the canzonet were then extensively practised, and, with the fugitive poetry of Peele, Marlowe, ❋ Various (N/A)

You find not the apostrophas, and so miss the accent: let me supervise the canzonet. ❋ Unknown (1914)

He swung away, singing a canzonet, and quickly vanished, while ❋ Eden Phillpotts (1911)

Indeed, it was a common thing then, in places where friend met friend, for one that had a voice to read somewhat aloud for the delectation of the others, whether a pleasant tale in prose or a poetic canzonet. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The _sestina_, a very elaborate canzonet, was invented in Provence and borrowed by the Italians. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

He got to know fairly well Mendelssohn's canzonet quartet and ❋ Edward Bellasis (1887)

There was rivalry, of course, duly encouraged by Brock with a promise of tobacco to the first man in, but it was all good-natured competition, the last man chanting his laughing canzonet as loudly as the first. ❋ Walter R. Nursey (1887)

The following chorus ( "Egypt was glad"), usually omitted in performance, is a fugue, both strange and intricate, which it is claimed Handel appropriated from an Italian canzonet by Kerl. ❋ Unknown (1876)

With your leave, I will try a canzonet I learned in London. ❋ Unknown (1872)

How we sang together the old-fashioned canzonet, ` Love in thine eyes forever plays '? ❋ Unknown (1867)

And both their windows being open, and only a thin partition between the chambers, Amyas's admiring ears came in for every word of the following canzonet, sung in that delicate and mellow tenor voice for which Frank was famed among all fair ladies: -- ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

"Much better," observed Joungevello, the minstrel; "I shall write a canzonet in her praise, and sing it before the king." ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)

After this we have an Italian canzonet, on the praises of blue eyes ❋ Unknown (1824)

Melvil and Rushdale on the flute and clarionet, she sang, in a very affected style, an Italian canzonet. ❋ Unknown (1821)