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  • The Ballade Of these the ballade is the best known, and Dobson's "Ballade of the Pompadour's Fan" is subjoined as one of the most popular and most easily imitated.

  • But the ballade has two bugbears: the first the refrain which refuses to come in naturally, and the second the envoy which insists on appearing as a disjointed after thought.

  • A stanza or two may be expanded into a ballade in English containing an elaboration of the original thought.

  • Do not write a ballade until you can write a limerick.

  • The Ballade Book, edited by Gleeson White, Ex Libris Series, contains examples of all the forms and is probably the most convenient collection to be had.

  • It is undoubtedly easier to write a sonnet if one is familiar with Wordsworth or to write a ballade if one has read Dobson.

  • Utilize the line by making it the refrain of a ballade or the ending of some similar verse form.

  • With its difficult rhymes the ballade is an excellent school in which to learn smooth-flowing verse.

  • The use of the ballade variant may be found in Kipling.

  • If one is able to write a simple and natural ballade the ordinary stanza forms will appear ridiculously easy.

  • I shall be back at Pest (Fischplatz) on the 10th February, and shall rejoice to hear the Ballade of our valiant friend Mihalovich, to whom I shall write tomorrow.

  • A Ballade of Wattle Blossom A Song "Willow and Wattle" James Lister Cuthbertson.

  • At the same time ask Fraulein Gotze also whether she has received the copy of the Ballade Leonore.

  • But it is quite right to let the Ballade come out, and I am impatiently awaiting my copy.

  • Il n’est bon bec que de Paris” is the refrain of Villon’s “Ballade des Femmes de Paris.

  • The quotation is the refrain of François Villon’s famous “Ballade des Dames du temps jadis.

  • The refrain of Eustace Deschamps’ Ballade 58 is: “Qui pendra la sonnette au chat?

  • Reader, forgive me, man or maid, Against Calliope this crime; And let this brief ballade persuade How easy 'tis to write a rhyme!

  • The narrative ballade is perfectly legitimate, provided the writer has sufficient power to overcome the extreme difficulty it presents.

  • The most important rules for the ballade may be put briefly:--First, The same set of rhymes in the same order they occupy in the first stanza must repeat throughout the whole of its verses.

  • The ENVOY is so peculiarly a feature of the Ballade and Chant Royal, that it is needful to draw our attention to the invocation which with it invariably commences.

  • The laws of the ballade apply to the chant royal, with some added details of its own.

  • It is a moot point with students whether the ballade or chant royal is the earlier and original poem.

  • The 57th Ballade of those written during his imprisonment.

  • And within that little work this famous Ballade is by far the greatest thing.

  • Another ballade records an incident which is supposed to have happened in Calais.

  • I was forgetting that the refrain of the ballade of the immortal Villon 'Tout aux tavernes et aux filles' which was that of my life for so many years is so no longer, I wonder what the devil the refrain is now?

  • Ballade of a Ship Down by the flash of the restless water The dim White Ship like a white bird lay; Laughing at life and the world they sought her, And out she swung to the silvering bay.

  • On the right, Villon 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 spluttering admiration at his shoulder.

  • But Nick was better employed; he was quietly taking Villon's purse, as the poet sat, limp and trembling, on the stool where he had been making a ballade not three minutes before.

  • From among the numerous and beautiful compositions of Brahms for solo pianoforte we have selected the Ballade in G minor because it represents a somewhat unusual and hence seldom recognized side of his genius--the specifically dramatic.

  • From the inner evidence of this Ballade of Brahms it seems to the writer[267] not too fanciful to consider it a picture of a knight-errant in medieval times setting out on his adventures.

  • The doppio movimento marked in the manuscript of the first ballade was changed before publication to allegro ma non troppo, no doubt in deference to Schumann's suggestion.

  • Has this ballade made a similar impression on you, my Clara?

  • In the fourth ballade how beautifully the strange melody vacillates at the close between minor and major, and remains mournfully in the major.

  • The Ballade works up a very powerful climax; the Scherzino swishes fascinatingly; and the Romanza for piano is a notably mature and serious work.

  • The first ballade appears to me a trifle curtailed.

  • Some day, when I grow too old to bear arms, I will to pen and ink-horn and will make of him a ballade that shall, mayhap, outlive our time.

  • The opening of this first Ballade is sad, sinister and mysterious, like the old Scotch story.

  • At six and a half I began to study seriously, so that when I was nine I was playing such pieces as Chopin's Ballade in A flat.

  • The third Ballade also received an illumination from Von Bülow.

  • Gifted by nature with the utmost frankness of disposition, he sympathized fully with Arnauld and Pascal in the war against the Jesuits; and it would seem, from his Ballade sur Escobar, that he had read and relished the "Provincial Letters.

  • On the right, Villon 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 spluttering admiration at his shoulder.

  • Though shod with the useful galosh, I'm racked with rheumatical pain-- I think that a Ballade is bosh!

  • Though clad in a stout mackintosh, My temper I scarce can restrain-- I think that a Ballade is bosh!

  • I don't think my verses will wash, They're somewhat effete and inane-- I think that a Ballade is bosh!


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