Leaving doggrelto the minstrel of MOSES, he might aim at a really sentimental treatment of his subject.
Gascoyne’s long poem, called The Fruits of War, is in the doggrel style of his age; and the general commendations of Chalmers on this poet seem rather hyperbolical.
In some districts of the county the following doggrel is repeated: "St. Clements!
On the other hand, the martyrdom of St. Winifred and St. Hugh is an abject tragic failure; an abortive attempt at cheap terror and jingling pity, followed up by doggrel farce of intolerable grossness.
Sternhold and Hopkins were illustrious as Doggrel writers.
Doggrel {135}is commonly used by anonymous poets for the purpose of embodying the moral reflections which a homicide or an execution excites in the sensitive mind.
The lyrics are often very clever pieces of rhyming, totally different from the inane doggrel of the old opera-bouffes and burlesques.
Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos (often witty in the original) became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude.
He was altogether ignorant; but possessed a wonderful facility in pouring out doggrel verse.
One scrap of doggrel may be worth inserting: In London stands a famous pile, And near that pile an alley, Where merry crowds for riches toil, And Wisdom stoops to Folly.
Not much," replied the proconsul, "but enough to recognise that abominable doggrel rhyme which has gone the round of the Committees of Public Safety throughout the country.
He denies that he has broken trust with the Protector; he denies that he is a Leveller; and, what pleases us best of all, he denies the authorship of the doggrel lines just quoted.
Verse and useful knowledge pass for incompatibles; and, though Doggrel is not Poetry, yet it has a lumbering proclivity that way, and so forfeits the confidence of grave sensible people.
I, too, began reading poetry, or, as my grandmother expressed it, poring over doggrel trash.
What spouse and Satan did attempt in vain The quack will compass with his murdering pen, And on a dunghill leave poor Job again, With impious doggrel he'll pollute his theme, And make the saint against his will blaspheme.
These three figures are placed in as many compartments with doggrel verses under each.
It consists of a series of rude woodcuts, with a few doggrel verses under each.
Addison said that burlesque poetry runs best "in doggrel like that of Hudibras, .
This is a specimen of what Mr. Churton Collins calls "that headlong voluble breathless doggrel which, rattling and clashing on through quick-recurring rhymes, .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doggrel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
