"Chanson" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dropped it down the shaft to eternal oblivion. Reeves began to make Keats turn in his grave. Mrs. Pothunter told the story of the man who met the widow on the train. Miss Adrian hummed what is still called a CHANSON in the cafes of Bridgeport. Grainger edited each individual effort with his assistant editor's smile, which meant: "Great! but you'll have to send them in through the regular channels. If I were the chief now—but you ...
— The Trimmed Lamp and Others • O Henry
... a good deal of Chipewyan. Many of his personal adventures would have fitted admirably into the Decameron, but are scarcely suited for this narrative. One evening he began to sing, I listened intently, thinking maybe I should pick up some ancient chanson of the voyageurs or at least a woodman's "Come-all-ye." Alas! it proved to be nothing but ...
— The Arctic Prairies • Ernest Thompson Seton
... character there is in "Musette," the "Chanson de l'Alouette," the "Chant du Retour," and the "Gaite," and how much freshness in "Lina," and "A ma fille!" But the best pieces of all are "Au dela," "Homunculus," "La Trompeuse," and especially "Frere Jacques," its author's ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... by lot, God wot:[6] and then you know, It came to passe, as most like it was:[6] The first rowe of the Pons[8] Chanson will shew you more, [Sidenote: pious chanson] For looke where my Abridgements[9] ...
— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald
... ardirent la ville et violerent l'abbaye." ("And burnt the town and violated the abbey.") Froissart, quoted by Littre. As early as Le chanson de Roland we find: "Les castels pris, les cites violees." ("The ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France
... style, but their sonatas and concertos are tiresome in their mediocrity. Offenbach's works which were given at the Opera-Comique—Robinson Crusoe, Vert-Vert, and Fantasio are much inferior to La Chanson de Fortunio, La Belle Helene and many other justly famous operettas. There have been several unprofitable revivals of La Belle Helene. This is due to the fact that the role of Helene was designed for Mlle. Schneider. She ...
— Musical Memories • Camille Saint-Saens
... little mistress-of-the-bells scrubbed and beat the clothes with her paddle, and rinsed and wrung them and soaped them afresh, she sang softly under her breath, to an ancient air of her pays, words that she improvised to fit it—vrai chanson de laveuse: ...
— Barbarians • Robert W. Chambers
... than it now seems. Here are found the original airs of "Agincourt," "All in the Downs," "Barbara Allen," "The Barley-Mow," "Cease, rude Boreas," "Derry Down," "Frog he would a-wooing go," "One Friday morn when we set sail," "Chanson Roland," "Chevy Chace," and scores of others which have rung in ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various |
