Musical setting of a literary ballad; poetic and musical genre in the 18th and 19th centuries, popular with the Romantics and their later epigones.
1 A young man writes a ballade and dreams over a bit of lace.
2 And as capable as any Chopin ballade at exciting Viola's blood.
3 The second ballade possesses beauties in no way inferior to those of the first.
4 I'm going to write a ballade to her and mail it to her anonymously.
5 I like that ballade of yours on 'Henri at Cahors.'
6 I read somewhere a ballade asking-whereare the "best sellers" of yesteryear?
7 The rhymer's eyes widened as he drew breath to blow forth the envoi of his ballade .
8 So I took matches, burnt, and with just 60 of them wrote the first stanza of a ballade .
9 Vaguely he tried to shape a ballade , a noble ballade in honour of all things good to eat.
10 I began, choosing the form of an old French ballade ; it is the easiest because it is the most restricted-
11 Could there be a more poignant symbol of irreclaimable vanished things than that so happily hit on by the old ballade - maker :
12 Victor laughed, and began explaining the difficulty of constructing a ballade of double refrain, when a hand fell upon the door.
13 Somebody had deloused Villon and shown that the Grosse Margot of the ballade was not a woman but an inn sign.
14 We passed a very happy day together, in honour of which I made yesterday a holiday...I have a new ballade by Chopin.
15 There is quite a bundle of Mr. Baring's letters to Gilbert, and, in spite of the apologetic ballade , a fair number of answers.
16 He had his dear, illiterate mother, for whom, and at whose request, he wrote that unexpected ballade of prayer to the Mother of God.
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