Bating a few bungling thrusts amid the doggerel of "Peter Pindar," he escaped scathless,gaining, on the other hand, a far more than ordinary proportion of poetical panegyric.

"That's too trivialthe sort of doggerel for newspaper poets' corners rather than a warrior's shield.

They are the public faith, without which there is no such thing as honorable national life; and the public service, which unless pure and strong and noble makes all the pagans of free government but doggerel in our ears.

The presidential campaign of 1840 is well described by Carl Schurz as "a popular frolic," with its "monster mass-meetings," with log-cabins, raccoons, hard cider, with "huge picnics," and ridiculous "doggerel about 'Tippecanoe and Tyler too.'"

'Twas long she did maintain the Royal Cause, Argu'd, disputed, rail'd with great Applause; Writ Madrigals and Doggerel on the Times, And charg'd you all with your Fore-fathers Crimes; Nay, confidently swore no Plot was true,

Black Bart would have been shot on sight had he presented his doggerel to any self-respecting Western editor; nevertheless the sentiment that inspired a bandit to set forth his misdeeds in execrable rhyme transformed him from a criminal into a popular hero!

During the early years of the Restoration doggerel verses ridiculing Puritanism, and burlesque,that is, a ridiculous representation of serious subjects, or a serious representation of ridiculous subjects,were the most popular form of literature with London society.