"Ballade" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Joanna—lovelier than I had pictured her in my Lotus Club dreams, more gracious than Ingonde or Chlodoswinde or any of the belles dames du temps jadis whose ballade by Maitre Francois Villon my master had but lately made me learn by heart and whose names were so many "sweet symphonies." It was Joanna, "pure and ravishing as an April dawn"; Joanna beloved of Paragot in ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
... week fled before the rejoicings were ended and all had passed in procession. Canale surpasses himself here, for he loved State ceremonies; he gives a paragraph to the advance of each gild, its salutation and withdrawal, and the cumulative effect of all the paragraphs is enchanting, like a prose ballade, with a repeated refrain at the ...
— Medieval People • Eileen Edna Power
... Oscar F. Walzel to be referred to later, all commentators, so far as I have looked into the matter, say that he did. Adolf Strodtmann said[44] it first (1868), in the following words: "Es leidet wohl keinen Zweifel, dass Heine dies Loeben'sche Ballade gekannt und bei Abfassung seiner Lorelei-Ballade benutzt hat." But he produces no proof except similarity of form and content. Of the others who have followed his lead, ten, for particular reasons, should be authorities: Franz Muncker,[45] Karl Hessel,[46] ...
— Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei • Allen Wilson Porterfield
... and Guy Tabary were huddled together over a scrap of parchment; Villon making a ballade which he was to call the "Ballade of Roast Fish," and Tabary sputtering admiration at his shoulder. The poet was a rag of a man, dark, little, and lean, with hollow cheeks and thin black locks. He carried his four and twenty years ...
— Stories By English Authors: France • Various
... "Lament for the Makaris quhen he wes seik," a kind of "Ballade des poetes du temps jadis," a style which Lydgate and Villon had already furnished models of. In ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... Elzevirs Ballade of the Real and Ideal Curiosities of Parish Registers The Rowfant Books To F. L. Some Japanese Bogie-books Ghosts in the Library Literary Forgeries Bibliomania in France Old French Title-pages A Bookman's Purgatory Ballade of ...
— Books and Bookmen • Andrew Lang
... verse, arranged on a precise system, and having nothing in common with the word ballad, except its derivation from the same Low Latin verb, ballare, to dance. In the 14th and 15th centuries it was spelt balade. In its regular conditions a ballade consists of three stanzas and an envoi; there is a refrain which is repeated at the close of each stanza and of the envoi. The entire poem should contain but three or four rhymes, as the case may be, and these must be reproduced with exactitude ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various
... of H. W. Parker's "Ballade" for chorus and orchestra, by the Litchfield County Choral Union at Norfolk, Conn. Conducted ...
— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee
... I should address you a Rondeau, Or else announce what I've to say At least en Ballade fratrisee; But No: for once I leave Gymnasticks, And take to simple Hudibrasticks; Why should I choose another Way, When this was good ...
— Collected Poems - In Two Volumes, Vol. II • Austin Dobson |
