20 examples of doggrel in sentences

" "True," said Dupin, after a long and thoughtful whiff from his meerschaum, "although I have been guilty of certain doggrel myself.

To Latinise a pun, we must seek a pun in Latin, that will answer to it; as, to give an idea of the double endings in Hudibras, we must have recourse to a similar practice in the old monkish doggrel.

" Skelton wrote a humorous doggrel piece called the "Tunning of Elinor Rummin," which is here alluded to.

Spires have since sprang up pretty numerously in Preston; but there was a time, and not very long since either, when the line in the well known doggrel verse "High church and LOW STEEPLE" was descriptively correct.

" The meaning of this doggrel, which is somewhat broad, may be rendered"He dines well who escapes without paying a penny, and who bids farewell to the innkeeper by wiping his nose on the tablecloth.

But we question whether he was understood; whether, if that very flowery and magniloquent style which we now consider his great failing had been away, he would not have been passed over by the many as a writer of vulgar doggrel.

The very doggrel of them, the total absence of any attempt at ornament in diction or polish in metre, is proof complete of their deep heart-wrung sincerity.

3. Downright doggrel;" and proceeded to anatomise them very cordially in his way.

The "foolish rhyme," to which the attention of the Bishop of London had been directed by Lord Burghley, has the subsequent doggrel title: "A Skeltonicall Salvtation, Or condigne gratvlation, And iust vexation Of the Spanishe nation, That in a bravado Spent many a crvsado, In setting forth an armado England to invado.

Then he began a ludicrous singing, see-saw recitation of the English doggrel "The noble wight, The Wallace dight, Who slew the knight On Beltane night, And ran for fright Of English might, And English fight, And English right;" and so on in drunken ribaldry.

He first thinks fit no sonnetteer advance His censure farther than the song or dance, Your wit burlesque may one step higher climb, And in his sphere may judge all doggrel rhyme; All proves, and moves, and loves, and honours too; All that appears high sense, and scarce is low.

This general censure of the persons of wit and honour about town, is fixed on Rochester in particular not only by the marked allusion in the last sentence, to the despotic tyranny which he claimed over the authors of his time, but also by a direct attack upon such imitators of Horace, who make doggrel of his Latin, misapply his censures, and often contradict their own.

But if he would be worth a poet's pen, He must be more a fool, and write again: For all the former fustian stuff he wrote Was dead-born doggrel, or is quite forgot; His man of Uz, stript of his Hebrew robe, Is just the proverb, and 'As poor as Job.' One would have thought he could no longer jog; But Arthur was a level, Job's a bog.

The children weave their flowers and chant some old doggrel rhymes with little or no meaning.

Every reader who holds a book in his hand is free of the inmost minds of men past and present; their lives both within and without the pale of their uttered thoughts are unveiled to him; he needs no introduction to the greatest; he stands on no ceremony with them; he may, if he be so minded, scribble "doggrel" on his Shelley, or he may kick Lord Byron, if he please, into a corner.

We see some of our Poets have been so indiscreet as to imitate Hudibras's Doggrel Expressions in their serious Compositions, by throwing out the Signs of our Substantives, which are essential to the English Language.

Doggrel 60 Dogs 116 (Fn. 1), 474, 579 Doily stuffs cheap and genteel 283, 320 Domestic life 320, 455 Donne, his description of Eliz.

Your wit burlesque may one step higher climb, And in his sphere may judge all doggrel rhyme: All proves, and moves, and loves, and honours too; All that appears high sense, and scarce is low.

I have not the vanity to think myself a poet; and I have a horror of seeing mere doggrel rhymessuch as the following "Mighty toil I've borne for years thirty, I have revived Persia by this Pursi.

Valentines are, however, getting very ridiculous, if we may go by the numerous doggrels that appear in the print-shops on this day.

20 examples of  doggrel  in sentences