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Thus Emser says once in German doggrel, that Luther imagined that

Life of Luther Julius Koestlin

Thus Emser says once in German doggrel, that Luther imagined that

Life of Martin Luther Koestlin, Julius 1881

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

Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867

In what his daughter calls a doggrel list of his friends and his feats, Dr. Burney has thus mentioned the Thrales:

Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781

He repeated a kind of doggrel pasquinade, beginning with --

Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Maria Edgeworth 1808

He showed me once a poem he'd written in those days with an apology -- It's doggrel adolescent doggrel.

Gabriel Byrne: A Review of Furious Love by Sam Kashner and Nancy Shoenberg Gabriel Byrne 2010

But the acme of beauty is in the hair and, indeed, al-Shihab the Hijazi hath brought together all these items in his doggrel verse of the metre Rajaz, 489 and it is this:

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

In places, however, it is clearly improvised and then as a rule it is model doggrel.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

In our house it was not merely that no attention was given to literature, to poetry; but poetry, especially Russian poetry, was looked upon as something quite undignified and vulgar; my grandmother did not even call it poetry, but ‘doggrel verses’; every author of such doggrel was, in her opinion, either a confirmed toper or a perfect idiot.

Punin and Baburin 2006

I, too, began reading poetry, or, as my grandmother expressed it, poring over doggrel trash ....

Punin and Baburin 2006