| 单词 | doggerel |
| 例句 | He continues to contemplate the scenery, to read Burma-Shave doggerel, and to count the carcasses of shotgunned coyotes festooning ranch fences. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing that seems even a little surprising is a bit of doggerel, a love poem in Prince Dain’s hand, about a woman who remains unidentified, except by her “sunrise hair” and “starlit eyes.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "The stones are inspected,” he wrote in one of the few doggerel poems ever published in Science, And Holmes cries, "rejected, They're nothing but Indian chips.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As she passed the mantelpiece, she looked up at the framed doggerel. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “Lord God Almighty, Weiser, are you an idiot? She will not produce anything worth reading when she’s in this state. Look—this is verse. English doggerel. Pages and pages of it!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z A tall black boy recited a long, funny piece of doggerel, replete with filth, describing the physiological relations between men and women, and I memorized it word for word after having heard it but once. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Yogi couldn’t have managed that one, nor would he have, as Frederick Sommer does, thought to make doggerel out of Shakespeare. Baseball Cards for the Photography Set 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z I was reminded of the old doggerel: Which, of course, is what the rebel Tories think about Cameron, and what most MPs think about Osborne. No one expects the austerity inquisition 2013-05-14T16:47:48Z “Monrovia, Indiana” is not precisely about any of those things, but it carries intimations of them, elegiac strains amid the doggerel of daily life. Review: ‘Monrovia, Indiana’ Is a Sharp, Lyrical Look at Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Pawing pallidly at their instruments, muttering doggerel into their collars, they sound like nothing so much as that first, staggeringly inept band you formed for a giggle with your schoolmates. The Libertines: by no stretch of the imagination a great band 2010-08-18T11:54:00Z Can doggy doggerel redirect Noble Wolf’s attention from being outraged about Finland to being outraged about Iraq? Review: ‘The Offending Gesture’ Takes On Foreign Policy’s Barking Madness 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Perhaps no children’s form is more ancient than the book of verse, those compilations of light doggerel meant to entertain and instruct. Is Life Fair? Four Picture Books Say No 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Writing lyrics is not a profession most little boys dream of, but Mr. Harnick traces his career back to his Chicago childhood, when his mother would write doggerel for birthdays, bar mitzvahs and weddings. Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Busier Than Ever at 91 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z What it takes for divine lunacy is frat house doggerel. Review: Matthew McConaughey Waxes Poetic in ‘The Beach Bum’ 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Eliot’s fondness for doggerel and light verse, in particular, was intertwined with a racist notion of blackness as a gateway to cultural disruption and linguistic play. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z We don’t hear that now, we just hear charming children’s doggerel. The Crazy History of “Star Wars” 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Fenn’s doggerel had seven times seven types of ambiguity, enough to keep an estimated 100,000 fortune hunters poring over it for a decade. Review | They all think they’re Indiana Jones in ‘Chasing the Thrill,’ a tale of a real-life treasure hunt 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z This one involved glass, asphalt, overcast skies and other spurious doggerel, and was almost impressively meaningless. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode four recap – Some Guy 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z They consist of a few black lines and a daub of color, to which are attached a few doggerel rhymes. Valentines, Vengeful and Comic, Through an Antique Lens 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z There’s also spoken word, weak humor, self-help advice and earnest, rhymed doggerel about hope. Dance Review: Soul Steps and Dance Theater of Ireland - Review 2011-11-23T23:44:41Z In his book, My Dear Mr Churchill, Walter Graebner, tells how the prime minister made up an "impromptu piece of doggerel" concerning Graebner's drinking habits after dinner one evening at Chartwell. Winston Churchill manuscript reveals his poetic side 2013-02-06T20:30:03Z Other entertaining bits of contemporary doggerel do feature, but Morris isn't here for close reading. Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z And the same goes for his volumes of best-selling poetry -- or "doggerel," in the words of several highbrow critics who were tasked with reviewing them when they came out and sold thousands of copies. Remembering Rod McKuen, the accidental hipster 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Some of the verse is patriotic doggerel in a variety of languages, with translations in English that mock supernationalist silliness. 'Vanished Kingdoms': the rise and fall of governments 2012-01-11T22:10:08Z The jokes in the vast expanses of dialogue rarely land, and the doggerel of the sung verses falls flat, too. Review: ‘The Merry Widow,’ Revisited at the Met 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z An old pal sent her mildly vulgar doggerel. Hillary Clinton Opens Up About ‘What Happened,’ With Candor, Defiance and Dark Humor 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Even the simplest transcends the doggerel tune, and the more ambitious ones are indeed wonders, not least the one that melds a tune of Mozart’s into the mix. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Schubert and Beethoven at Carnegie Hall 2014-04-13T21:42:43Z Writing also afflicted me early; at age seven, I wrote a poem called The Little Red Fox that ran on for a couple of pages of doggerel rhyme. Rush: 'Our fans feel vindicated' 2011-03-24T21:29:01Z David Orr writes eloquent, amusing and circuitously disapproving commentary on the retching doggerel by Charles Bukowski, whose reputation far exceeds his literary accomplishments. Letters to the Editor 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z She does write doggerel now and then, but for this, she says, she needs some time. Arts & Leisure: Elaine Paige Returns to the Stage in ?Follies? 2011-11-20T02:02:17Z And some of it is doggerel, they admit. My Cousin, the Cowboy Poet 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The first-draft doggerel of It Will All End in Tears – "I don't feel sorry when you cry/ I don't believe you when you lie" – makes you long for a hint of the overly clever. The Drums: The Drums 2010-05-27T14:29:00Z We’re too busy to fiddle with construction paper and doilies, too sophisticated to scrawl out honeyed doggerel for each other. Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Reading these bits of doggerel it is impossible not to revise your image of Eliot, and I began to find him more varied, amusing, and even more admirable, than I had previously. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z Worse, he was capable of doggerel even dogs wouldn’t want to read: One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z There is no house style: doggerel, avant-garde experimentation and all points between have always been welcome, and the range and quality of work is amazing – as the examples below show. Come rhyme with me: the best of the books blog poets 2010-10-06T20:31:00Z The question was answered by a mischievous Boston Post editor named Gerald V. Hern, who was, like me, a joyful practitioner of doggerel. Destruction, if not death, by Gene: Weingarten’s Jinx lives on Let John Denton’s doggerel stand in for all the great jottings that didn’t make it into “Dear California.” An L.A. literary scholar confesses: California was my first love 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z ChatGPT can turn out doggerel poetry or freshman and sophomore essays, pass tests on some technical subjects, write press releases, compile legal filings with a veneer of professionalism. Column: Artificial intelligence chatbots are spreading fast, but hype about them is spreading faster 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The dissent attracted some ridicule — including a bit of doggerel published in the American Bar Association Journal: Christopher Stone, environmental scholar who championed fundamental rights of nature, dies at 83 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z In a letter to the West Sussex County Times, a critic resorted to doggerel to denounce Knepp’s “ragwort shame, spread like the plague, and who’s to blame?” The end of farming? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z “All hail, sage lady, whom a grateful isle hath blest,” says a photographer to Elizabeth at the end of Season 1, aptly quoting the patriotic doggerel of Wordsworth’s “Ecclesiastical Sonnets.” How the Man Behind ‘The Crown’ Made the Monarchy Relevant Again 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Mac’s ability to elevate doggerel to verse—and to a mirror of his protagonist’s essence—is no small thing: it is the work of a real writer expressing depths in a popular form. “Ink” and “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” Play with History 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Lee’s most memorable speech bubbles totter on the edge between speech, poetry, and outright doggerel. The larger-than-life huckster dialogue of Stan Lee 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z For a quiz called the “Listener Limerick Challenge,” he read doggerel that tested call-in contestants on their knowledge of the week’s news. Carl Kasell, NPR broadcaster who brought gravitas and goofiness to the airwaves, dies at 84 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z A lot of it’s radical poetry, pretty lousy stuff: doggerel is a better description of it. The first world war helped shape modern America. Why is it so forgotten? 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Army Montgomery Meigs to circulate among the Army of the Potomac to pick up any negative “doggerel” or insults officers made about him. White House installs political aides at Cabinet agencies to be Trump’s eyes and ears 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Back in the day, depressed Qing writers would share self-mocking doggerel verse in the newspaper. Finding a Rich Vein of Humor in China’s Past 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Re Mrs. Sprat: I was decidedly not amused by this lengthy doggerel. Mrs. Sprat’s Ultimate Demise at Katz’s Deli 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z But the same verse can strike one critic as doggerel and another as art, and not everyone missed the power — and the point — of Ali’s poetics. Muhammad Ali, the Political Poet 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z There was carping about the young fighter's prefight antics, his silly doggerel, and, finally—more seriously—his name change and decision to embrace the tenets of Islam. Muhammad Ali Fought With His Fists and His Words 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The old white sportswriters said the flicking, shying kid with the silly doggerel would get knocked into the ringside seats with one punch. When Ali was still Clay, the old white sportswriters didn’t know what to think 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Ali, who died Friday at 74, recited doggerel, danced in the ring, taunted his opponents and converted to Islam. Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell: Foils and Friends Bound by Mutual Respect 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Even in those days, Clay was using doggerel verse, like a pugilistic Ogden Nash, to predict an opponent’s demise: “This guy must be done / I’ll stop him in one.” The Outsized Life of Muhammad Ali 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z As George Saintsbury argued back in 1906, there was a kind a doggerel that could achieve for its creator a form of immortality. Muhammad Ali, the Political Poet 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Describing his steps in the ring, he delighted the media with doggerel. Muhammad Ali dies at 74; brash boxing champion made his mark in and out of the ring 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z He entertained as much with his mouth as with his fists, narrating his life with a patter of inventive doggerel. Muhammad Ali, Titan of Boxing and the 20th Century, Dies at 74 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z “If you’re going to write doggerel at least make it rhythmically consistent.” Calvin Trillin defends his Chinese food poem in the New Yorker amid criticism 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Finally, Roger Wright of Norfolk sent in a bit of, well, you might call it doggerel, but it’s more clever than that. Yabba-Dabba Doo! Maybe we’ve been wheeling downhill since the Stone Age. 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z His wife Eliza could publish her poetry in the paper, and no one could edit her doggerel. This is the battle that made Los Angeles — and a great newspaper war 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Right now, @StayWokeBot generates doggerel, little poems comparing Twitter users to significant black leaders. Can a #BlackLivesMatter Twitter bot support activism and silence trolls? | Jess Zimmerman 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z He was friendly—ate with servicemen, drank with them, read their doggerel, listened to their songs. Have Tuxedos, Will Travel: How Bob Hope Earned His Reputation 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z If you're going to write doggerel at least make it rhythmically consistent. Calvin Trillin defends his Chinese food poem in the New Yorker amid criticism 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z This is doggerel indeed, and of a type that's hard to bear - The Loop: Nobel grilling 2013-12-13T18:20:14Z Or possibly The Man, singularly unimpressed with today's tatty doggerel, will have told us to do one, in which case we'll be stacking shelves – alongside Mr Lambert – at your caring, sharing Co-op. The Fiver 2013-01-23T15:49:24Z That said, we’re also willing to consider exceptional doggerel in all it’s forms. Salon limerick contest reboot 2013-01-07T17:50:00Z Their melancholy end is recorded in a doggerel epitaph, of which we give an illustration. Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z There is a vast amount of post mortem doggerel that never would have been written if the cherubs had only made dirt-pies, and had eaten freely of them. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Instead of relying upon their eyes the majority of people rely upon a bit of doggerel. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z "Capuchins," says the old French doggerel, "drink poorly, Benedictines deeply, Dominicans pint after pint, but Franciscans drink the cellar dry." Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Some scornful commentator has called this doggerel; but I would that all doggerel were as interesting. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z The supplication for alms, in the name of learning, is cast in the form of a sing-song doggerel. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z Let not the fire go out until some cords of pious doggerel, concocted in the name of poetry, have been added thereto. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Sid touched wood, whistled, and repeated a binding doggerel with great solemnity. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z Compared with such a feeling, the romance of the "man of the world" is tame and flat, his poetry but the doggerel jingle of the third-rate variety-show. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The old man exchanged a few low words in doggerel Arabic with the strangers. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z There were some pencilings, too--all kinds of doggerel slang and initials. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z The only things worthy of note were an account, perfectly straightforward, and to be quoted in its place, of the Dunmow Flitch, and some doggerel concerning the "properties of the counties of England." Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Our habit of reducing the psalms to doggerel before we will condescend to sing them, is a parallel abuse. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z Free verse that is flabby, in-organic, shapelessly obvious, is as much of a crime against poetry as the cheapest echo of a Masefield that any doggerel scribbler ever strummed. Irradiations; Sand and Spray 2012-02-14T03:00:28.347Z It is much shorter than "Damon and Pithias," but, like that play, is styled a tragical comedy, is written in rhymed verse, mostly doggerel, and contains farcical scenes and many songs. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Considerable tracts of it are of the most pedestrian description, and in places it descends to a doggerel which recalls the metrical barbarities of the pantomime. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z To venture an audacious travesty, and some even more hardy doggerel:— ... Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z It is a tiresome doggerel and full of painful rhymes. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z They were written in the doggerel street-ballad style, and when they were printed, his brother sent Benjamin about the town to sell them. The Life of Benjamin Franklin Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes 2012-01-04T03:00:46.617Z The doggerel rhyme favored in the popular drama was to give place to blank verse, and the jigging clowns to heroic themes and "high astounding terms." Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z But even Sammy knew how to “count out” in Scotch, for they had long since learned Mrs. MacCall’s doggerel for games. The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z Mere doggerel, but it did the turn better, perhaps, than more refined music would have done. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z For a ballad or doggerel he sometimes had quite a liking. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z "Humour," said the Justice, "you call this obscene doggerel, humour?" The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z In the west of England I was familiar, as a child, with the doggerel rhymes: England I was familiar, as a child, with the doggerel rhymes: British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Two amusing bits of doggerel appeared in the same number, one representing the British nation's view of the international episode. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) 2011-11-21T03:00:13.443Z The sign of a five-barred gate hung out is not uncommon in the Midland Counties, with the following doggerel verse:— “This gate hangs well, And hinders none; Refresh and pay, And travel on.” The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The doggerel verses of the Roman legions passed from camp to camp with the mysterious swiftness of an epidemic, and found their way even into the sober history of Suetonius. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z We find this doggerel in his Note-book: O dear Mother Outline, of wisdom most sage, What’s the first part of painting? she said, Patronage. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z Chaucer’s Rime of Sir Thopas is interrupted by the voice of common sense—rudely— This may well be rime doggerel, quoth he. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The girls were in fits of laughter by the time they had done singing Louise’s doggerel. Winona of the Camp Fire 2011-08-28T02:00:35.510Z From the doggerel, thus condemned by the hard head of Josiah, Benjamin turned to prose. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z While some of his verse is hardly more than doggerel, he sometimes rises to a lofty plane of expression. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z Already, on this Saturday, she had heard some of the lines of the doggerel repeated by giggling girls—and she hated them all for it! The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors 2011-08-11T02:00:17.153Z But Chaucer has made a good thing out of the rhyme doggerel, and expresses the pleasant old-fashioned quality of the minstrels’ romances, as well as their absurdities. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The writing of jingles and doggerel having Niagara as a theme did not cease when the Albums were no longer kept up. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z The Natal papers indulged in some jocose doggerel, which would have been comic had it not been deeply tragic. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z It has been suggested that a series of initial letters which surmount a doggerel inscription are those of the many titles which Rienzo bestowed upon himself. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z In making this reference I would state that the above doggerel rhyme has been arranged, quite recently, by myself. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z First an age of deeds, and then an age of song—so here goes for the doggerel. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z Examples of such doggerel could be multiplied by scores, but without profit. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z The broadsides under notice give representations of the fair held on the Thames, and describe it in doggerel verse. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z I had the girls say that doggerel about the forty-nine blue bottles while we were stuck fast in the mud. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z He had some letters, and was ingenious; but he was an infidel, and wickedly undertook, some years after, to turn the Bible into doggerel verse, as Cotton had formerly done with Virgil. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 2011-06-08T02:00:20.907Z On one side of the door was some rhymed doggerel about 'Come, cookey, come,' and bring 'your bones,' plastered up against the wall. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Reasonably ribald people will perhaps recognize the schoolboy doggerel. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z Swift acted as chaplain to Pembroke, but his principal duty appears to have been that of amusing the earl with humorous doggerel or by his caustic criticisms of Dublin's leading citizens, official and otherwise. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z The Strutts are all clever, Here's Edward for ever, she writes, and defends her doggerel by the 'natural Irish spirits where the interests of a friend are concerned.' The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children 2011-05-18T02:00:12.733Z I threw my sorrows into a doggerel epigram as I was in my bath this morning.— Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z He was accompanied by some college friends, who luckily were at hand when certain unpopular sentiments in his doggerels provoked a street row. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z She uses folksy rhetoric and relentlessly lampoons the communists, using native limerick and doggerel. Showstopper 2011-04-15T00:15:05Z He is often tame, prosaic, and even doggerel; and he sometimes discovers the conceits of a vitiated taste, in the most direct opposition to the simple character and majestic genius of his Roman original. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z The well-known doggerel respecting the tailor of Bicester may be mentioned as a remarkable instance of this, for it is one of the most common nursery-rhymes of the present day, and Aubrey, MS. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z Inspire is an impressive effort, although after a sassy front-of-book section it sags into boring doggerel in the well -- except for the illustrated guide on how to strip a Kalashnikov, of course. Inspire: Perusing the New Glossy al-Qaeda Magazine 2011-03-31T17:03:35Z In pages of such doggerel one finds comical enough things; but exported, they may lose their native flavor, so I will not give too many of them. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z The sentiment is nice and pretty, but is it poetry, or, even if it were, could it make poetry of the doggerel—for surely there really is no other name for it—that precedes it? The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z In fact, the fine sentiments are Cicero’s—the doggerel English verse, into which he has converted Cicero’s classical prose, his own. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z The manner in which a practical moral good was to be inferred from this doggerel is not very apparent, but Mr. Marshall had a way of his own in settling the difficulty. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z A person conversing with him occasionally found himself addressed in rhyming couplets, as if, of their own accord, his words would run into doggerel. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z Instead of replying to my question, the Satyr, with eyes glassily set on vacancy, began some more of his infernal doggerel. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z She played and sang till he felt every atom in his being moving rhythmically to the little doggerel. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z “First rise after low foretells stronger blow” is as true to-day as when Admiral Fitzroy wrote his weather-lore doggerel, and the principles of meteorology hold good equally north and south of the equator. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z We have no longer blind obedience to Brother Thomas' doggerel, but the submission to common sense, the rigorous method of a man who knows what he wants and who has no time to lose. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z “Don’t sing us any more doggerel, but lead on!” commanded Laura. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z The old doggerel adage, "A dog and a wife and a walnut-tree, the more they are beaten the better they be," has reference to the manner of harvesting the ripe fruit. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z This was not the ragged, rote recitation of patriotic doggerel customarily heard before many sporting events, but something ferocious and precise, its every undulation sung in deafening, largely male unison. Red Sox Owners Go to Bat for Liverpool Soccer 2010-11-28T05:00:00Z It is undoubtedly the most preposterous little trophy in sport, a little terracotta perfume pot with six lines of doggerel stuck on the front and, they say, the remains of a burnt bail inside. Andy Bull on why the Ashes matter 2010-10-27T09:45:00Z And you yourself, Vorski, for the last time listen to the doggerel of Brother Thomas! The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z Listen here,” cried the whimsical Bobby, who had a doggerel rhyme for every occasion. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z One of these, called “A Looking Glass for the Times,” while it is mere doggerel, shows that its author was interested in literature. The True Benjamin Franklin Up rose a tall, gaunt, shabby-genteel, pale-looking figure, bowed to the company, and began, in a cracked voice, affectedly to chant some doggerel verses against the Ministers of State. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 Some one hailed Highjinks, who was cutting lively antics in the water, and struck up a familiar doggerel, something after the fashion of modern college ditties. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies Only a competent classical scholar can write good macaronics; only a good poet can write clever doggerel. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII In others, certainly a small proportion, we get sheer, unillumined doggerel. The Vagabond in Literature Young ladies, provided with male escorts, sprinkled poetry, or at least doggerel, over the conversation of more staid matrons. A Top-Floor Idyl Busch stands alone among the caricaturists of his nation, inasmuch as he is both the author and the illustrator of these works, his witty doggerel supplying Germany with household words. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" A doggerel verse at the end set forth that Pizarro was a butcher waiting for more meat, and that Almagro went to Panama to gather sheep to be slaughtered. The Spanish Pioneers They are mostly translations or adaptations from the English, but a few, such as the rather doggerel 'Pilchard Fishing Song,' are originals. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII In his working life that represented two lines of doggerel. The Eye of Wilbur Mook Divers bits of doggerel describe their respective merits. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. Before the war, nearly any day you might find frail American ladies from the Middle West standing in front of Leonardo's canvas and repeating the lines like so much doggerel. Interpreters His youngsters were supplied with "The Third English Reading Book," and were painfully thumbing their way through a doggerel poem about an "old man with hoary hair." From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel He thought of the poem, the bit of doggerel carved in the foundation stone of the tower. Quest of the Golden Ape I beg of you to give up that vile trash of doggerel rhyme. One Of Them He sang, with accompanying action, some dozen verses of doggerel, remarkable for obscenity and imbecility. The Night Side of London Whatever "consolation" the Latin doggerel which follows in the original may have given to its author, it would have too little interest for the reader to be quoted here. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 “Oom Paul is riding on a pig— He falls off and hurts himself, Then climbs up and rides away—” A nonsensical bit of popular doggerel. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion I don't know why I was possessed to recite that doggerel at just this moment but there is something strange about it. Quest of the Golden Ape Oh, these doggerel rhymes Are like nursery chimes, That sang us to sleep long ago. One Of Them It was really pleasant to hear him speak of the great days of Metternich and Nesselrode and Talleyrand, when a frontier was settled by a bon mot, and a dynasty decided by a doggerel. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly It is obvious there must exist something of this kind; for no modern compositions are found to supply altogether the place of the ancient doggerel. The Nursery Rhymes of England And ‘Confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks’—how is that for doggerel, eh?” Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion Mark repeated the doggerel as well as he was able, and pledged the only sentiment he could divine, that of the latter part, with all his enthusiasm. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago "A university, I verily believe, only known to Englishmen through Canning's doggerel," said Ogden. One Of Them Here is preserved a very fine money chest of the fifteenth century, painted with a scroll pattern, and resting on a stand inscribed with curious doggerel of the date 1615. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See In fact, barring an inclination to overindulgence in rather trite doggerel, Punch's jorum has rarely been more tasty than in the past quarter century. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 But the more they hustled and cursed him the more defiantly he shouted his idiotic and, under the circumstances, insulting doggerel. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion "My tummy, oh, my tummy!" began Hal, but Pat cut him short with the order to fall in, and started off at a pace which left Hal no breath to waste on doggerel. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp As they may be interesting to some of my older golfing friends, I have interpolated them into the rugged doggerel of the text from the notes I took at the time. A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews They contained some army doggerel which the poet of Co. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys She did not need the reminder of the farmer's old doggerel to keep her from touching that which was not hers. The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in It was not long before the old mocking doggerel was applied to Willenhall:— A tumble-down church— A tottering steeple— A drunken parson— And a wicked people! The Annals of Willenhall She’s repeating the Desire as if it were a bit of doggerel.” A Campfire Girl's Happiness It contained some lines of a very rugged doggerel, hardly even rhyming, written in a gross character, and most uncouthly spelt. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) For instance, the newspaper poet writes: “The street was white with snow,” and makes his line commonplace doggerel. Threads of Grey and Gold Judging by a caricature of Williams’s, published by Fores in June, 1818, and its doggerel explanation, the toys would appear even at this time to have been made and sold by every street boy. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Date.—There is much wordplay of a rather cheap kind, much doggerel, and much jingling rime in this play. An Introduction to Shakespeare “We ought to have ‘got the hay in’ before this,” said Bill, as Tom’s doggerel of the morning came back to him. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out Why soften his warning with your doggerel translations. The Land of Look Behind And people were found to believe in this doggerel—especially frightened were the Irish in London, and the lower classes generally. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign Wordsworth can, as everybody but Wordsworthians holds, and as some even of Wordsworthians admit, write the most detestable doggerel and platitude. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The presence of alternate riming sonnets and doggerel rime on the one hand, and of a number of double endings on the other, render 1592 a reasonable date. An Introduction to Shakespeare A local poet, long since forgotten, was inevitably inspired to preserve the legend in his rustic doggerel. The Monk of Hambleton Beneath, in patois, is the doggerel: Beautifully blue is the sea, But my heart aches in me, And my heart will never recover Till returns my peasant lover. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Benjamin, who found it very easy to write doggerel verse, wrote one ballad called “The Light-house Tragedy.” Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series Indeed, it would not be possible to find specimens of more miserable doggerel. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches Mr. Whittier regarded the verses as doggerel, and expressed his intention of writing something worth while for his youthful admirer. Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order She was sung in prose and verse; the poetasters ran to much doggerel of handsome intent, as was the fashion of the day. Vigée Le Brun And maybe the rest of the doggerel isn't so far off either. Two Thousand Miles Below Who has not groaned over the follies and idiocies that cling to us like the doggerel verses that hang about our memories? Bunyan Any literature he might absorb would be a priest-written history of Ireland, with the rebel doggerel of 1798 and the more seductive sedition of later years. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The definition of oats in the Dictionary is brought up against its author, and Bozzy is also attacked in a doggerel epigram on his Corsican Tour and his system of spelling. James Boswell Famous Scots Series There is often a quaint local humour conveyed in the doggerel verses; the charm being greatly enhanced by the introduction of creole slang and mispronounced Spanish. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba The author of Hudibras unjustly—we hope not maliciously—in his witty doggerel, ascribes this transaction of the miscreants at Weymouth to the Pilgrims at Plymouth. King Philip Makers of History It has been the fashion to call Bunyan's verse doggerel; but no verse is doggerel which has a sincere and rational meaning in it. Bunyan For the sixteenth century, we have the evidence of numerous statutes, the returns of the commissions, doggerel verse, popular insurrections, sermons, etc. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction Mary Cox continued to line out the doggerel, inventing some telling hits as she went along, while the Upedes came in strongly on the refrain. Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall or Solving the Campus Mystery The relief of the garrison found expression in waggery; they called the generals the three bow-wows, and circulated the doggerel:— "Behold the Cerberus the Atlantic plow, Her precious cargo Burgoyne, Clinton, Howe, Bow wow wow!" The Siege of Boston You must tell me—” Ramsey shook his head and tried to force the thoughts from his mind with doggerel. Equation of Doom It was about this period I began to spend a good deal of time in writing doggerel and rhyme for publication in the local press. Adventures and Recollections The few men in the place had turned startled eyes as Murphy whined the doggerel ballad nasally. Louisiana Lou A Western Story As this strange doggerel was sung the masked students danced fantastically around Gus Plum, slapping him with their swords and clubs. Dave Porter in the Far North or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy “See here! here’s one seaside visitor’s complaint,” and she intoned in a singsong voice the following doggerel: 4 “‘Why don’t red-headed girls get tanned? The Girls of Central High in Camp Or, the Old Professor's Secret I began to compose doggerel verses to express our exultation. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse One day Ben signed teetotal, and I remember I wrote a few lines of doggerel on the occasion. Adventures and Recollections He fell to muttering again, quoting doggerel, whined out in an approach to a tune: “Louisiana—Louisiana Lou!” Louisiana Lou A Western Story I will next group a score of poems and doggerel rhymes with their various degrees of humor. The Wit of Women Fourth Edition "Reflected here there should have been A younger and far fairer Queen." continued the voice in a doggerel as devoid of polish as the mirror itself. In Brief Authority Even doggerel ballads sung about the streets praised "The Nightingale of the East, For her heart it means good." Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History It was with astonishment and amazement that my parents and my companions received the following doggerel:— Morpeth and Milton went a baking pies, Milton gave to Morpeth two black eyes. Adventures and Recollections This strange bit of doggerel is said to have been composed and repeated by King Henry V. of England on the birth of his only child Henry. Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly He smiled suddenly to himself, threw back his shoulders, and lifted up his voice in the doggerel that had come to be a sort of bond between the two. The Ranch at the Wolverine Another pleasant little jest was that perpetrated by Suwarrow, who, after the bloody battle of Tourtourskaya, announced the result to his mistress in an epigram of two doggerel lines. The Land of Thor Mornac, long dead, is safe in his disguise; Tric-Trac was executed on the Place de la Roquette, and celebrated in doggerel by an unspeakable ballad writer. The Maids of Paradise I struggled hard for the particular party which I favoured, writing “squibs” and all kinds of doggerel, until I became literally saturated with politics. Adventures and Recollections His short doggerel rimes, which breathe a jovial gaiety, were long extremely popular. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 ‘Wretched doggerel,’ he said they were, ‘some divinity student must have written them,’ and with such vehemence, such vehemence! The Brothers Karamazov Bluphocks is simply racking his brain for words to rhyme with "Pippa," so that he may write doggerel poetry to or about her. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning The native boys however, on hearing it, exclaim in doggerel rhyme, which I translate, "The shell is blown, And the devil is flown." Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Here were the names of the kings—the head-masters—generally with some rough doggerel verse, not often very flattering, and illustrated with outline portraits. The Toilers of the Field If he never quite relapses into the sheer doggerel of the First Period, he sometimes comes perilously near to it. A History of Elizabethan Literature For he had heard the Magister rail against matrimony in Latin hexameters and doggerel Greek. The Fifth Queen Crowned Now let us observe that date, which is given in fantastic style, apparently because the inscription is in a rude doggerel, and the writer seems to have wished to keep his "verses" tolerably even. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest What with the rubbing, and the constable's kind manner, and listening to the doggerel rhyme, and feeling that nettle would get her deserts, the little thing soon ceased crying. Tom Brown at Oxford Why in the devil wasn’t I taught to write doggerel when I was in college? At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Such possession, however, seems on the other hand to be quite incompatible with the production of the hopeless doggerel which he not infrequently signs. A History of Elizabethan Literature Here she gave exhortations, and prophesied in a species of religious frenzy or convulsion, sometimes uttering very heavy prose, and sometimes the most fearful doggerel rhyme resembling—well—perhaps our album effusions here at home! The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages And then, unable to control himself, he broke out into a bit of his old-time doggerel. The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch The Cowboys' Double Round-Up It is an invitation, composed in doggerel rhyme, to the Boer forces to invade Griqualand West, signed by the chairman of a district branch of the Afrikander Bond. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 He wrote verses freely—among them doggerel burlesques of the productions of the ministerial writers of the day. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Skelton, on the other hand, with all his vigour, represents the English tendency to prosaic doggerel. A History of Elizabethan Literature I think the learned gentlemen, if they could peruse these doggerel rhymes, would acknowledge that their meaning has been expressed even more plainly and forcibly than in their own prose. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 The authorship of the doggerel lines on his tomb has been attributed to various people. Shakespeare's Family Because a true poet can write something worthy of being read, while a mere verse-maker, like yourself, writes only doggerel, that is not worth the paper on which it is printed. The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. Two of these were printed by his brother and sold as street-ballads, but they were, as he informs us, wretched doggerel, and the ridicule thrown on them by his father deterred him from similar attempts. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History There is nothing here of Wyatt's floundering prosody, nothing of the well-intentioned doggerel in which Surrey himself indulges and in which his pupils simply revel. A History of Elizabethan Literature The preface closes with a long doggerel rhyme, which, the translator says, he has purposely left untranslated. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century With the Rover boys went their old school chums, "Songbird" Powell, who was always making up doggerel which he called poetry; Hans Mueller, already introduced, and Fred Garrison. The Rover Boys on the Plains The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch Many of the presents were accompanied by little verses or lines of doggerel, and the reading of these caused much merriment and laughter. Patty's Summer Days Of course, we assumed there was one, but we had only that foolish doggerel to prove it. Patty's Friends Both doggerel and fourteeners appear in the quaint productions called Three Ladies of London, etc.; but by this time the decasyllable began to appear with them and to edge them out. A History of Elizabethan Literature It is written in quaint old German and is interspersed with many pious comments, biblical quotations and Latin words and phrases, and now and then it breaks out into doggerel verse. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' The doggerel of counting-out rhymes is often traceable to old Latin formulas used for these purposes, a fact that shows the absurdity and artificiality of purposely manufactured rhymes. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium He demands in his vigorous doggerel:— May I not write in such a style as this, In such a method, too, and yet not miss My end, thy good? Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis It was an awful tune—I think he called it sevens—but he made common-sense of my doggerel by one alarming emendation. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 The same mixture appears to some extent, though the doggerel occupies the main text, in the Damon and Pythias of Richard Edwards, the editor of The Paradise of Dainty Devices. A History of Elizabethan Literature Some day on this her eyes may light, This doggerel stiff and jointless, And she may own it is not quite Pointless. Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series Some of them were silly doggerel, but there was nothing coarse or unworthy in them. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War Now, he thought he heard someone singing raucously one of those improvised doggerel songs of spacemen and Moonmen... The Planet Strappers This man was wheeling himself in a go-cart on the race-ground at Lanark, dressed in sailor's costume, and selling papers with a picture of the Kent upon them and some doggerel verses below. The Loss of the Kent, East Indiaman, in the Bay of Biscay Narrated in a Letter to a Friend The metre is the somewhat unformed doggerel couplet of twelve syllables or thereabouts, with a strong cæsura in the middle, and is varied and terminated by songs from Custance's maids and others. A History of Elizabethan Literature Patty Paine, gifted in art, had painted them charmingly, while Angela Dare, despite her scorn for mere "doggerel," had penned a verse suitable to each guest. Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's The story was set forth in rhyming doggerel. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance It seemed to me no better than that Methodist doggerel. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow Being questioned whiles what were these nine defaults and having put them into doggerel rhyme, he would answer, 'I will tell you. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio He wrote little, and the scantiness of his production, together with the supposed pains it cost him, is ridiculed in Suckling's doggerel "Sessions of the Poets." A History of Elizabethan Literature But ere the hunchback could finish this scurrilous doggerel of the court, over which, doubtless, many loose witlings had laughed, the girl's companion placed his hand on his sword and started toward the dwarf. Under the Rose The father was frantic with alarm—the boy had disgraced him, and even his own position seemed to be threatened when some wit adroitly accused the parent of writing the doggerel for his son. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Evidence of style—the liberal introduction of tags of Latin and the exceptional beat of the doggerel—makes it difficult to allot the Bianca scenes to Shakespeare; those scenes were probably due to a coadjutor. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles For one, two, four minutes Miss Gould sat staring; then she interrupted him coldly: "And who is the author of that doggerel, Mr. Welles?" A Philanthropist True, he is often careless in the bad sense as well as in the good, though the doggerel of the "Sessions" and some other pieces is probably intentional. A History of Elizabethan Literature Daniel wrote his own valentine, but, despite its originality, that document gave him no such comfort as Billy got from twenty-five cents' worth of embossed paper, pink cupids, and doggerel. A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother" Take the following doggerel: Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November. Creative Unity Whiggery was translated into a tune, and poured itself forth in doggerel rhymes which seemed to be born of the hour, and exactly suited to the crisis. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 Over each is a tombstone, inscribed with a rhyming epitaph, written by the titled lady herself, and which is in sober sadness in every instance doggerel, as befits the subject. The Gypsies Departing to school, he had addressed her in melancholy verses—doggerel decorated with references to flowers turned to dust, setting suns that would never rise again, countless symbols of hopeless passion and impending tragedy. Sacrifice Among these was a specimen of schoolboy doggerel: "Abraham Lincoln, His hand and pen, He will be good— But God knows when!" The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln So a doggerel verse was composed and sung fervently to a modified form of the National Anthem by way of intimating their grievance forcefully to the notice of their commander. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century An account of this historic battle is preserved in a doggerel ballad, printed and sold locally, and composed Heaven knows where, which is called "Tapping the War-Lord's Claret: Why Kaiser Bill hates England." Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland Heine's short four-line verses do not lend themselves to translating and though many have attempted it, the results are almost always a jingle, often approaching doggerel. The Book-Hunter at Home I enclose a few doggerel verses penned painfully on a pad perched on a pillow, which—if you can read 'em—you are welcome to do so. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 It was born of accident; several officers sitting over their pipes, around Bagby's editorial pine, scribbled in turn doggerel on some war subject. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death Republican journals reeked with such doggerel as: "See Johnny at the helm of State, Head itching for a crowny; He longs to be, like Georgy, great, And pull Tom Jeffer downy." History of the United States, Volume 2 It is utter doggerel, but expresses the contemporary views of the people, and was sung to a tune called 'Liggan Water,' a title that, according to Mr William Chappell, refers to an Irish stream. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts They showered in caricatures and doggerel by the barrel. Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 From Maine to Georgia the mania for writing such doggerel spread with a rapidity only equalled by the avidity with which the people seized upon the songs, and sung them. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 This Kailash used to rattle off for my special delectation a doggerel ballad of his own composition. My Reminiscences On the contrary, the public in America which looks for moral inspiration to clergymen, is fed upon this sort of doggerel:— Strike for the Anglo-Saxon! Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles "I can give you an original bit of verse which I have entitled, 'When the Blossoms Fill the Orchard, Molly Dear,'" answered the doggerel maker. The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall Can worse doggerel than such a stanza be written? The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 Lastly, a series of vague appeals to revolt, written in the vernacular, partly in prose, partly in doggerel rhyme, have been preserved and seem to testify to a deliberate propaganda of lawlessness. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England If this is not done, as in what we call doggerel rhyme, an effect of grotesque is universally produced, to the ruin of serious poetic effect. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Mere baldness might be excused, and even doggerel overlooked, but one has only to turn to almost any of the current standard translations of foreign songs to see that the matter is worse than this. Spirit and Music “Do you mean to insult me?” exclaimed Angelica, in an angry tone, as she continued to read on the doggerel which Tom had substituted for those Billy had given him. The Three Admirals Harry Bailey, mine host of the Canterbury pilgrims, called it 'doggerel rime.' The Principles of English Versification “Look here,” said I, starting up, “do you mean to tell me I write doggerel?” Boycotted And Other Stories It was only shameless doggerel, but it took. Betty Wales Senior Underneath was a bit of doggerel elaborating certain traits ascribed to "The Rounder." A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life This silly doggerel, as shown in the footnote, is a good criterion of the intellectual capacity of the Satnāmis. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Looking back to my Oxford days, I recall some doggerel lines, of German origin, in which this belief finds apt expression. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular I shouldn’t try unless I was sure of writing something that wasn’t doggerel,” said Harry. Boycotted And Other Stories This so-called inscription was in reality nothing but some English doggerel of anything but a refined character turned into Greek. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. To be sure, the bit of doggerel had been inscribed on a card sent him by Harriette in the third-grade valentine box, but Louise need never know the secret of its authorship. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life More frequently he degenerates into the merest doggerel, e.g.— Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) In the visitors' book of the inn at Pen-y-gwryd, Tom Hughes, Tom Taylor, and he left alternate quatrains of doggerel to celebrate their stay, written currente calamo, as the spirit prompted them. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies They may see sonnets in double-shuffle metre, doggerels in hop-skip iambics, and ordinary newspaper "ponies" with the rhythm of the St. Vitus dance. The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs Or else Lescarbot perpetrates a newspaper,—a handwritten sheet giving the doings of the day,—perhaps in doggerel verse of his own composing. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom These doggerel lines indicate clearly the dread in which this innocent snake is held. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales "Well, there are twelve pages of the doggerel," said Sam, glancing over the sheets. The Rover Boys in the Air From College Campus to the Clouds Both editions contain notable things amid occasional bits of what scarcely rises above doggerel. Essays on Scandinavian Literature Rude doggerel lines announced that the duke should share the doctor's fate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Gourlay met these infamous measures by penning some witty doggerel, headed "Gagged, gagged, by Jingo!" Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom This supposition has found strength and sanction in doggerel verse. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales It is distressing to think of all the sums now devoted to inducing callow, overdriven sophomores to compose forced essays and doggerel, by luring them on with the glitter of cash prizes. The Joyful Heart But though this is true, I will venture to assert that Chapman also sins, not merely by his love of quaintness, but by constantly indulging in sheer doggerel. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Why could he not chant the piratical doggerel that Coke abhorred? The Stowaway Girl She published, in 1805, a volume of doggerel rhymes, and was in the habit of satirising in verse those who had offended her. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century As the clock began striking twelve the fellow-servant began striking the floor with a strap, repeating the doggerel lines “Am gyd-fydio i gyd-ffatio,” and almost immediately she saw her master come down stairs. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales And a goodly proportion of those who make merry in their room are sure-eyed, well set-up, ruddy, muscular chaps, about whom the average man may jeer and quote slanderous doggerel only at his peril. The Joyful Heart There is a doggerel couplet which typifies this spirit better than anything I can write, and it runs:— No rogue e'er felt the halter draw, With a good opinion of the law. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont I have omitted much, as Aytoun's ‘Lays,’ whose absence many will resent; I have included much, as that brilliant piece of doggerel of Frederick Marryat's, whose presence some will regard with distress. Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys A quartet of young voters now proceeded in catchy doggerel to laud the virtues of the party and the commanding genius of its candidates, thereby giving the blown doctor a much-needed respite. The Henchman It may be statements of fact and items of information; it may be sound science and unimpeachable record; it may be truism; it may be platitude; it is often sheer bathos or doggerel. Platform Monologues Their language has long given place to a sort of doggerel English, but they have never learned to speak the language of the country except in some of the straggling border villages. By Berwen Banks This is always fun and you are surprised how quickly doggerel rhymes suggest themselves when your turn comes to furnish a verse to the song. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls It is fair to add that this spirited and amusing piece of doggerel has been severely edited. Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys Stately prose and the language of the Gospel narratives have been substituted for doggerel verse. The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches None of these obnoxious 'printed bookes' have survived to the present time, and it has been contended that they were probably nothing more than ballads and copies of doggerel verses. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 He could indeed write verses which, for sheer doggerel, it would be difficult to match, but in spite of that there was the authentic note of poetry in him. Among Famous Books A current piece of doggerel when I was in Washington ran thus: "Benny runs the White House, Levi keeps a bar, Johnny runs a Sunday School— And, damme, there you are!" The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin Then he walked around the room, reading another doggerel or two. The Mystery at Putnam Hall The School Chums' Strange Discovery You will at once see, by running through the alphabet, that "roam" is the only serviceable rhyme for "home," but the union of the two suggests jingle or doggerel. The Romance of a Christmas Card Closing his eyes, he began to sing some doggerel beginning— "My name is Hira, the flower girl." The Poison Tree A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal There is an amusing page, in doggerel verse, which I remember to have read some years ago. The Book of Art for Young People But whether it be doggerel or dignified verse, popular poetry almost invariably possesses one great merit. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 And while this doggerel was secretly pressed by her bosom, she stole a look at L'Isle, and was surprised to see how little galled he seemed to be by her ridicule. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters Nay, I am afraid some of us have laughed at those who endeavoured to ask our attention to what we called the daubs of the one or the doggerel of the other. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses So vivid was his impression of the doggerel that for an instant he thought he heard the sing-song of his father's tuneless voice. The Sheriff's Son She even published doggerel verses in the Dublin Weekly Advertiser, and signed them "Speranza," which annoyed Lady Wilde intensely. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 Until the boys got hold of that doggerel he wrote, Johnny was sure they had not paid any attention to his occasional vague rhapsodies on the subject. Skyrider The lights flashed up, and "Spot" darted off on some catchy doggerel of an almost talented obscenity. Adventures of a Despatch Rider He was young to carry so bold a front when his heart must be hammering, and I would willingly have talked any doggerel to have afforded him another smile. Montlivet Before him lay the scrap of parchment with the doggerel lines of the wise woman inscribed upon them. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot I send you from this day's Morning Post thePg 47 best which have hitherto appeared on this 'impudent doggerel,' as the Courier calls it. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals She was glad and thankful that Johnny had refrained from writing any such doggerel about her. Skyrider The entire contravention of these principles results in bombast or doggerel. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library "The Days of the Month" is a useful bit of doggerel that we need all through life. Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library So had the Professor, and he never allowed an old story to be told in his presence without working in two lines of doggerel which he had composed, and of which he was very proud. Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life They sang a doggerel rhyme, and the form in which money was asked was, "Please to handsel the Lord and Lady's purse." Miscellanea He had some letters, and was ingenious, but he was an infidel, and wickedly undertook, some years after, to turn the Bible into doggerel verse, as Cotton had formerly done with Virgil. Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality For my old friend Mrs. Adams—no, I must be silent: the lyrics seem doggerel in its utter purity. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 No doubt, when the Songs of Innocence were first published, anyone who did happen to read them thought them doggerel. Essays on Art She responded that the gift of doggerel was not one to be desired, and, furthermore, that she was not a muffin, nor anything in the culinary way. A Man and a Woman He recalled the following wretched doggerel: O all-conquering race of man! A Reckless Character And Other Stories The interment over, some good-natured forecastle poet and artist seizes his paint-brush, and inscribes a doggerel epitaph. The Piazza Tales "Caught you that time, Tom, just as you caught Songbird with his doggerel." The Rover Boys in Camp or, The Rivals of Pine Island Verse quotations may be taken from a well-known poem, a popular song, a nursery rhyme, or even doggerel verse. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers Invention of Steam Power.—The following doggerel is the burden of a common street-ditty, among the boys of Campden, in Gloucestershire. Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 I had no idea what the "bit of doggerel" meant, if, indeed, it meant anything. A Woman Named Smith "I think it is foolish of you to think of exchanging that piece of doggerel—" "For what?" said she, standing in the middle of the room. Macleod of Dare Daniel wrote his own valentine; but, despite its originality, that document gave him no such comfort as Billy got from twenty-five cents' worth of embossed paper, pink cupids, and doggerel. Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature It seemed so sad to her that, when hope dawned upon him, he should celebrate it by singing a piece of sentimental, however haunting, doggerel. Captivity Many of the hymns—poor doggerel from a literary point of view—were sung to pleasing tunes wonderfully well harmonised by the men's voices. With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train "It's all about a bit of doggerel we found on a scrap of paper in the attic," I told him. A Woman Named Smith For the rest, he writes doggerel, and has no other pretensions that I can see. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary The English doggerel expresses the opposite sentiment, 'My son's my son till he gets him a wife; My daughter's my daughter all her life.' Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official I have thought it appropriate to add to these doggerel rhymes "The Battle of Copenhagen," "The Death of Nelson," and "The Arethusa." Drake, Nelson and Napoleon "God save the Queen" and "Rule Britannia" were thrown in every now and then, but seldom, if ever, I am glad to say, that wearisome doggerel "The Absent-Minded Beggar". With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train I remembered Shooba's savage chant of the One Eye that his Snake had shown him; and the doggerel verse on the frayed paper in Freeman's diary. A Woman Named Smith And I don't know that Shakespeare's doggerel is much better than Tusser's doggerel. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Though taken for a lunatic, the doggerel verse she sang disproved the popular slanders. Myths and Legends of China Oh! shades of ancient Egypt, did you ever hear or see anything so pathetically absurd as Jill as she solemnly repeated the old doggerel. Desert Love The doggerel and songs of the opening are without puns or pretensions of a comic kind, and must certainly be described as rather dull reading. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Mr. Maynard's doggerel was always highly appreciated by the children, and they sang the pleasing ditty over and over, while King rubbed away at the shoes in time to the chorus. Marjorie's Maytime They carry a small doll in a box ornamented with pieces of evergreen and chant doggerel rhymes. The Evolution of an English Town It was no lightening of the judgment when he added that the moderns surpass the ancients in doggerel, humour burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule, the arts of the "unlucky little wits." Essays on Wit No. 2 He possibly believed that his clever doggerel was a better title to immortality than Robinson Crusoe. Daniel Defoe They were in many cases wretched doggerel, full of slang terms and of impertinence that was both coarse and dull. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character So runs the Cockney doggerel, clear If ungrammatical, austere, With not a saving clause to qualify Its rigid Spartan rule, or mollify Theft's Nemesis. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892 If Nick had put that in doggerel, I think it would have read well. Around The Tea-Table You open your half of the packet, and discover some doggerel verse which you read aloud, and also a perfectly idiotic coloured cap, which you put on your head to the end of looking foolish. The Feast of St. Friend Mr Drinkwater, though he cannot write good doggerel, is a very good man. Aspects of Literature There is another version of that old doggerel. Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund They will not sing Dr. Watts's doggerel in their churches; but such things perhaps as Wordsworth's The World is too much with us, or Henley's I am the Captain of my Soul. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 He put them to shameful rout; and then, instead of bonfires and Te Deums, mocked at them in doggerel rhymes of amazing indecency. Montcalm and Wolfe And this ceremony is continued until the whole table is surrounded by preposterous headgear, and doggerel verse is lying by every plate. The Feast of St. Friend Such was the tenor of a doggerel verse sung in France, a verse that probably never came to Charles's ears—though Louis might have listened to it cheerfully. Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 A doggerel ballad had been written for the occasion by Thomas Davis, to the air of the "Gallant Tipperary," over which himself and his friends afterwards indulged in many a hearty laugh. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 One of these last was a very large, very old-fashioned back-comb, having a story with a moral attached, the latter recited in doggerel rhyme. Elsie at Nantucket There were several verses—quite doggerel it is true—but nevertheless rather remarkable for a dream. The Sorcery Club Perhaps you would abolish the doggerel of crackers, and substitute therefor extracts from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin! The Feast of St. Friend He wrote doggerel rhymes of history which took the place of Mother Goose. Etiquette Taking his pipe out of his mouth, and with the shank of it marking time to the doggerel, he said,— "Wheariver there's screes There's mair stones nor trees." The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance There is an idealism, wonderfully fresh and pure, about them, that is antagonistic to the composer's own assertion that verse often becomes doggerel when harnessed to music in song form. Edward MacDowell Perhaps the words of the children's doggerel, with a name or so altered, met the moment without need of further change.... The White Riband Or, a Young Female's Folly In one way, that which is melodious in verse becomes doggerel in music, and meter is hardly of value. Edward MacDowell Men went to their Calvary singing Tipperary, rubbish, rhymed doggerel, but their spirit was equal to that of any Christian martyr in a Roman amphitheatre. Carry On Letters in War-Time About a month ago Mr. T. P. O’Connor published in the Sunday Sun some doggerel verses entitled ‘The Shamrock,’ and had the amusing impertinence to append my name to them as their author. Miscellanies In the scanty leisure of a recruit in training it was more agreeable to lie about and write doggerel verses and draw caricatures of the men in one's platoon. Mr. Britling Sees It Through I confess to a respect for even the prefatory doggerel of good Tinker Bunyan--a respect for his paternal tenderness toward his book, not at all for his villainous rhyming. The End of the World A Love Story I wanted you to see some of the fellow's articles in print, but I have nothing of importance here—only some of his 'doggerel,' as he calls it, and you've had a sample of that. Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury Is the doggerel poem in the State Poems Marvel's? Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850 Pipe away, merry fish, and give us a stave or two more, keeping time with your doggerel tails. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I These queer little doggerels have an instinctive affinity for oblivion, and they will soon coalesce with the driftwood of the literary Sargasso Sea. Mince Pie One hesitates to repeat the doggerel, even in an effort to be exact. The Happy Family But the good old doggerel runs thus:405 A poor man once a judge besought, To judge aright his cause, And with a pot of oil salutes This judger of the laws. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 It was a happy move, for he has the rare faculty of writing clever doggerel. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 And after that one doggerel verse she made a gesture of good-humoured contempt and danced. The Dark House To which I add another nursery doggerel less sad:— "Bishop, Bishop-Barnabee, Tell me when your wedding be, If it be to-morrow day Take your wings and fly away." Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849 A fairly close analogy is that of Burns, who, with little natural inspiration, found inspiration in his native ballads, and often worked up the merest doggerel into artistic shapes of wondrous poignancy. Haydn In so many marriages the partnership is but a poor doggerel, while in others it is a poem of entrancing beauty, filling hearts with happiness and heads with generous thought. Sweetapple Cove A funeral notice was usually sent in doggerel. The Parish Clerk At the end, the orchestra, as though it could not help itself, broke into the old doggerel tune that had helped to make her famous: "I'm Gyp Labelle." The Dark House Meanwhile, he lodged with the family of Hercules Mulligan, and wrote doggerel for their amusement in the evening. The Conqueror Amid much commonplace and doggerel, F. produced a small amount of genuine poetry in his short pieces, such as The Indian Burying Ground, and The Wild Honeysuckle. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature He has plenty of melody, but it is hardly recognized because of the doggerel meaning, which swamps the music in the farce. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 The writers of doggerel verses have been numerous. The Parish Clerk Before she could answer the parrot interrupted, screaming out a bit of doggerel in its hoarse staccato. The Wild Olive There is some rather fine doggerel too, in which the doctor—the Dr. Portman Pendennis—apostrophizes a monitor in whom he had believed, but finds to have been as bad as the rest. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 His poems, which are often mere doggerel, were not pub. until after his death. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature There remain some hundreds of doggerel rhymes; but his affection for that particular novel survived the fatal facility of his octosyllabics, and reappears time after time in his later writings. The Life of John Ruskin His race has produced many writers of terrible doggerel of the monumental class of poetry; but far removed from these there have been some who have composed fine hymns and sweet verse. The Parish Clerk Canning's armoury contains nothing more serviceable than "schoolboy jokes and doggerel rhymes, an affronting petulance, and the tones and gesticulations of Mr. Pitt." Sydney Smith There is not much suggestion, or even promise, in this doggerel, of the Eugene Field whose verses of occasion were destined within a dozen years to be sought for in every newspaper office in America. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 The inscription over Shakespeare's grave is an offer of reward if you do, and a threat of punishment if you don't, all in choice doggerel. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great A cloud of pamphlets followed the Letter to a Noble Lord—some in doggerel verse, others in a magniloquent prose imitated from his own, others mere poisonous scurrility. Burke It is clear that he did not set himself to master the poet's art, yet through the mask of conventional verse which often falls into doggerel, the voice of a true poet is heard. John Marr and Other Poems Any person who could scribble a doggerel or indite a tract rushed into print, and now Whitshed was harnessed to Wood in a pillory of contemptuous ridicule. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters There is preserved in the pocket-books of some old printers in the West the galley proof of a doggerel rhyme read by him at the printers' banquet, at St. Joseph, Mo., January 1st, 1876. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 She was trying to perfect the doggerel she had written in her journal the previous night. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America I had even begun some doggerel, announcing to you the advent of the white-bait, which I imagined were likely to be all eaten up in your absence. Yesterdays with Authors In such strain writes the author of Why so pale and wan, fond lover? and both the circumstance and the doggerel should be very instructive to the snobologist. The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 He laughed at his trial,—alluded to Hamilton as "my friend Hamilton, whom I shot,"—and used to repeat some doggerel lines upon the duel, which he had seen in a strolling exhibition. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 It's that confounded doggerel— 'A Father kind, a Husband dear.' The Delectable Duchy In others the children collected the firewood from door to door on the eve of the festival, singing their request for fuel at every house in doggerel verse. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul It differs from the doggerel of the Fairy Pastoral in making no apparent attempt at scansion at all, and so at least escapes the crabbedness of Percy's language. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Gives thee his little doggerel lay–– One truth I tell, in sorrow tell it, I'm forc'd to give my verse away, Because, alas! Poetic Sketches Before writing these lines I had never attempted verse in my life—barring intentionally inane doggerel. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Thompson perused the doggerel once, twice, and a third time; and chuckled contemptuously. The Delectable Duchy He is a living proof of the utter and irreclaimable falsity of the idiotic doggerel: "Early to bed, and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 It is very dreary doggerel, it must be confessed, but no worse than most of the poetry indited in England at that uninspired moment in the national history. Gossip in a Library Parnassus wept with them, but no amount of weeping could destroy the ugly doggerel as Olga had written it. Madcap Some associations seem connected with the objects spoken of in the doggerel verses by which children are often taught their numbers. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development How could you make such a time over that doggerel! The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Another party go round to the different houses, grotesquely attired, supplicating contributions for the "tar barrels," and at each house, after receiving a donation, chant a few doggerel verses and huzza! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827 Gives thee his little doggerel lay;—One truth I tell, in sorrow tell it: I'm forced to give my verse away, Because, alas! Poems (1828) They may be almost doggerel; but not Mr. Tennyson can touch you like them! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 So then the boy lost his temper and sang some naughty doggerel he had made up in his cell that morning. The Ghost Ship The Atlantic cable was a theme of inspiration for innumerable sermons and a prodigious quantity of doggerel. Heroes of the Telegraph It contained some lines of very rugged doggerel, hardly even rhyming, written in a gross character, and most uncouthly spelt. The Black Arrow Though the tailor could not read, he usually composed the verses for the Charivari; and the doggerel of the father, mysteriously fructified, afterwards became the seed of poetry in the son. Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Tenth Muse, doggerel muse, slink hither, brute, And lick your master's hand . Hermione's Group of Thinkers In these letters, the general stupidity and arrogance of the monks of the late Middle Ages was exposed in a strange German-Latin doggerel which reminds one of our modern limericks. The Story of Mankind As he marched he sang a bit of doggerel in a high and quavering voice: "Sing a song 'a vic'try, A pocketful 'a bullets, Five an' twenty dead men Baked in a--pie." The Red Badge of Courage I wanted you to see some of the fellow's articles in print, but I have nothing of importance here only some of his 'doggerel,' as he calls it, and you've had a sample of that. Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 10 It was very different from the doggerel in which he had taken part with his humpbacked father so long ago. Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist A short pause, and he shouted out a few doggerel rhymes—the last he had ever learned. The Pickwick Papers Another, in one of the forest cantons of Switzerland, bears a doggerel couplet, which may be thus translated: "On the devil my spite I'll vent, And, God helping, bad weather prevent." History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom The effect of this piece of doggerel was entirely convincing, and for days afterwards whenever Minnie met the Simpsons even a mile from the brick house she shuddered and held her peace. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm "Truce with your nonsense, and let me hear the doggerel which has put it into your head," said the Master, impatiently. The Bride of Lammermoor As he marched he sang a bit of doggerel in a high and quavering voice: "Sing a song 'a vic'try, A pocketful 'a bullets, Five an' twenty dead men Baked in a—pie." The Red Badge of Courage But then I couldn't, with any respect for her, tell her the trout's message, or, with any respect for myself, recall those atrocious doggerel lines. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance In the Latin doggerel recounting their virtues, their meteorological efficacy stands first, for especial stress is laid on their power of dispelling the thunder. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Though fond of repeating this piece of doggerel, Peace would have been the last man to have attributed to himself all those qualities associated symbolically with the lion. A Book of Remarkable Criminals By now, Presley could not tell whether what he had written was true poetry or doggerel. The Octopus : A story of California It's an awful poem, doggerel in the rollicking meter of Robert W. Service's The Cremation of Sam McGee, but it is in fact, a poem. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier And if I can find out who it was that made up that vile doggerel … The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I "With trumpets, yea, and with shawms," will you be assailed in the most diabolical doggerel. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 What may have a strikingly pleasing effect in Oriental speech, becomes, in English, indistinguishable from doggerel. The Book of Delight and Other Papers Senator Allen of Nebraska quoted more than thirty authorities, ranging from the Pandects of Justinian to enlivening doggerel poetry. The United States Since the Civil War An intermittent chatter over a poker game was going on in the next tent, and outside a man was strolling up the company street singing a current bit of doggerel about "K-K-K-Katy." The Beautiful and Damned To sing, to play a lesson on the harpsichord, to recite an elegy, and to make doggerel verses, made the extent of my occupations, while my person improved, and my mother's indulgence was almost unexampled. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire But the doggerel which the late Mr. KEY attempted to celebrate it, is not altogether above reproach. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 He is remembered as the part author of a doggerel version of the Psalms. 191-212 For a discussion of this famous passage, see introduction to the Epistle. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems He read the doggerel aloud with an unkindly and uncalled-for exaggeration of the rhyming words. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking Because a true poet can write something worthy of being read, while a mere verse-maker, like yourself, writes only doggerel, that is not worth the paper on which it was printed. From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin "But not to mention that they were doggerel lines, had they even been anything like what verses should be, our writings shouldn't have been hawked about outside." Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books As regards the several stanzas of doggerel verse, they may too evoke such laughter as to compel the reader to blurt out the rice, and to spurt out the wine. Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books He had achieved the next installment of the doggerel to which every night Peaches insisted on having a new verse added as he entered. Michael O'Halloran And here, some verses against the king, in which the scribbler leaves a blank for the name of George, as if his doggerel might yet exalt him to the pillory. Old News (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") "Because you recited that doggerel about The Run of Crusader." Thoroughbreds This particular poem is a mixture of art and doggerel; but even the latter is interesting to lovers of Florence. Robert Browning: How to Know Him In sharp contrast with Bunyan is Butler's Hudibras, a witty satire, in doggerel verse, upon Puritanism. Outline of Universal History Richardson, in his "American Literature," quoting several stanzas, remarks, "This is doggerel, but it is Poe's special doggerel." Selections from Poe The only further remark that his seething brain presented was a scrap of ancient doggerel: "I wish I was dead, Or down at Owl's Head, Or anywhere else but here!" Geoffrey Strong As this doggerel continues to encumber each succeeding edition of the Poetical Works, it is as well that Milton did not persevere with his experiment and produce a complete Psalter. Milton I do remember, though, that at that time I thought my doggerel was one of the ablest poems of the age: Roughing It, Part 6. The doggerel Latin has been thought by some unworthy of Dante, as Shakespeare's doggerel English epitaph has been thought unworthy of him. Among My Books Second Series Yes, we will, and we're going to do away with those atrocious doggerel rhymes in the street cars and substitute real poetry. Patty Fairfield That this should be prevented by the doggerel engraved upon it, is unworthy of a scientific age. Shakespeare's Bones I am not ashamed to call them—doggerel though they be—an inspiration from Him of whom they speak. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography The "Mathematical Problem", one of his juvenile facetiae in rhyme, was thus heralded with a letter addressed to his brother George explaining the import of the doggerel. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Who could have imagined that a volume of doggerel, after all, would be the first offering that Gratitude would lay upon the shrine of Friendship? The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes In doggerel verses attached to the print Fielding is complimented with the following entire verse to himself:— "Then the Champion of the Age, Being Witty, wise, and Sage, Comes with Libells on the Stage." Henry Fielding: a Memoir "I think too that doggerel, 'A Noble Personality,' is the most utter trash possible, and it couldn't have been written by Herzen." The Possessed (The Devils) It is a mass of pious doggerel, founded on Scripture and with fanciful additions. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation The piece of doggerel, to which this epistle is a preface, will be found in vol. ii, p. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. The old words which Burns's songs superseded were wretched doggerel; not such were the ancient Greek heroic lays. Homer and His Age In the doggerel verses beneath this cartoon, it is very plainly hinted that "old Sarah," and the Opposition, were in league with the Stewarts. Henry Fielding: a Memoir Many of these doggerel productions were collected into small miscellanies, known as Garlands, in the reign of James I.; but few of the genuine old folk-songs found a refuge in print. Ballad Book This one, despite its subject, is far above doggerel: His friends he loved. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century This was all; and somehow Melody felt that she knew and cared for these parents much more than for those who put their sorrow into rhyme, and mourned in despairing doggerel. Melody : the Story of a Child The "jigging" refers to the doggerel verse of the earlier drama, and "clownage" to the crude horseplay intended to amuse the crowd. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Dated at —— this —— day of —— A. D. declarations, undignified in wording and sometimes written in doggerel rhyme. The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut The plain, often doggerel verse, and the rough, often coarse humor of this ballad make it appear at striking disadvantage among the Scottish folk-songs, essentially poetic as even the rudest of them are. Ballad Book The Athenaeum thought Browning ought not to write about the mysteries of the Christian faith in doggerel. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Lincoln, from behind the counter--his pulpit--not merely repeated items of information which he had heard, but also recited doggerel satire of his own concoction, punning and emitting sparks of wit. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form The former is a series of doggerel verses filled with grotesque puns and quips aimed at American authors who were prominent in 1848. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived In the absence of sleep, and while engaged as was not unusual at this period in the perpetration of doggerel verse, the irritation of the stomach became intolerable. The Opium Habit It was the custom to hang the verses up in the smoking room, and on that fact, even, Father later wrote some doggerel. My Boyhood Byron often points the cynicism by lapsing into brilliant doggerel, but his double nature appears in the occasional intermingling of tender and beautiful passages. A History of English Literature "But will that to-morrow ever be?"—the refrain of the doggerel rung in her ears. A Terrible Secret Their mimicry and acrobatic feats were less thought of than their long poems or lays of wars and adventures, which they recited in doggerel rhyme to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period In the meantime, here's some good-humoured doggerel for you: A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 The doggerel poet, wishing thee to read, Reject not; let him glean thy jests and stories. The Anatomy of Melancholy This is the most important of the English riming chronicles, that is, history related in the form of doggerel verse, probably because poetry is more easily memorized than prose. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World I'm no whippersnapper of a pen-slinger, earning a few paltry dollars by writing doggerel for women and mountebanks to act. The Cinema Murder "You ought to know that you are expected even to speak in doggerel." Home as Found |
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