"Madrigal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Madrigal VII. in illustration of lines 5 to 8. By the analogy of that passage, I should venture to render lines ...
— Sonnets • Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella
... only daughter of John II., of Castile, and Isabella, of Portugal, his second wife, was born in Madrigal, Spain, in 1451. Upon the death of her father her elder half-brother succeeded to the throne in 1454, as Henry IV. The queen dowager retired from court life with her infant son Alfonso, and her daughter Isabella, then in her fourth year. The royal children ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 • Various
... heap like a tea-kettle when she's renderin' this yere madrigal, an' that, an' the words, an' all the rest, makes me gloomy an' dejected. I'm shore pinin' away onder these yere malign inflooences, when my old gent notes I ain't recooperatin', an' so he guesses ...
— Wolfville Days • Alfred Henry Lewis
... madrigal and sonnet Shall woo to moonlight walks the ribboned sex, But side by side the beaver and the bonnet Stroll, calmly ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... as you will, or you can, in a Madrigal, in little light Verses, in the Scene of a Comedy, which is neither passionate or simple, in a Compliment, in a little Story, in a Letter where you would be merry yourself ...
— Essays on Wit No. 2 • Richard Flecknoe and Joseph Warton
... comic, piteous, cruel, lyrical, epic, dramatic, knightly, idyllic facts, and the like. They are often also resolved into merely quantitative categories, such as little picture, picture, statuette, group, madrigal, song, sonnet, garland of sonnets, poetry, poem, story, romance, ...
— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce
... cares for things that have no more point in them than a dumpling! give us a madrigal, or one of the devil's ditties from the ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby |
