单词 | doggerel verse |
例句 | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Who has not groaned over the follies and idiocies that cling to us like the doggerel verses that hang about our memories? Bunyan 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 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 I began to compose doggerel verses to express our exultation. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse 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 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' 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 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 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 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 This supposition has found strength and sanction in doggerel verse. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales 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 There is an amusing page, in doggerel verse, which I remember to have read some years ago. The Book of Art for Young People 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 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 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 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 Though taken for a lunatic, the doggerel verse she sang disproved the popular slanders. Myths and Legends of China 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 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 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 And after that one doggerel verse she made a gesture of good-humoured contempt and danced. The Dark House 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 The writers of doggerel verses have been numerous. The Parish Clerk 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 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 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 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 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 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 In sharp contrast with Bunyan is Butler's Hudibras, a witty satire, in doggerel verse, upon Puritanism. Outline of Universal History 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 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 "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 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 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 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 Now, in comparing this poem with some of the doggerel verse offered to small children, one is struck with the literary superiority in the choice of words. The Art of the Story-Teller 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 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 Attached to it is a label on which are scrawled doggerel verses in ridicule of the man on whose land the Straw-bull is set up. The Golden Bough X brought a paper of doggerel verses to the MAGISTRATE, which had been thrust into his hands, X said, by an Italian boy, who ran away immediately afterwards. Ballads We laughed at some doggerel verses which he cited, and which we, never having seen them before, suspected to be his own. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 |
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