I saw another letter from a lady at Paris, in which there was a high panegyrical paragraph concerning you. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
These poems exhibit the essential ingredients of African poetry, which is largely panegyrical, dramatic, and musical. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
What have philosophers to do with festive celebrities, and panegyrical solemnities with mathematical and physical truth?. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Mr. Macaulay would have aired the whole stores of his panegyrical vocabulary; and Sir John Hobhouse would not have gone abroad. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
Because of his position as official court historian, we may be tempted to regard Chastellains testimony as panegyrical embellishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Funeral of Duke Philip the Good] Reference
That exalted monarch then entered his own palace, worshipped by exalted Brahmanas conversant with the Vedas, eulogised by chanters of panegyrical hymns and congratulated by the citizens. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Why, writing a tragedy himself, with a judgment far different from that exhibited in his panegyrical preface, he totally rejects, and therefore tacitly condemns and abjures the use of prose-poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Review] Reference
Malherbe has been duly appreciated in France: his works, in one edition, are accompanied by an elaborate comment by Menage and Chevreau: Racan wrote his life, and Godeau, Bishop of Vence, a panegyrical preface. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850] Reference
Plutarch, but always accentuates their panegyrical and moral tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
But in these panegyrical orations, they oftimes rather exceed than excel. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference
Oculus Britanniae, an Heroi-panegyrical Poem, on the University of Oxford, 8vo. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]
The extant writings of Asterius are twenty-one homilies, scriptural and panegyrical in content. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
The political, the judicial, and the panegyrical departments were the three varieties of oratory. From Wordnik.com. [Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero] Reference
It is rather satirical than panegyrical in character, and its poetical worth is very far from high. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
The volume includes a Preface signed by two of the actors, Heminge and Condell, panegyrical verses by Ben. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown] Reference
And I say the same of panegyrical orations, discourses on special occasions, funeral sermons, and the like. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
Varchi committed his oration to the press, and two other panegyrical discourses were issued, under the names of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
In English conversation, he said, the panegyrical adjective of all work is nice; in America it is fine. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage] Reference
Silesian, prepared panegyrical verses with which to greet Erasmus if they should have the good fortune to meet him. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London] Reference
It is not strange, therefore, that the early panegyrical verses of Dryden should be made up of meanness and bombast. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference
A fulsome editor is pardonable though tiresome, like a panegyrical son whose pious sincerity would demi-deify his father. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
Milton -- and he vehemently insisted that moral, didactic and panegyrical poetry could never rise above the second class in importance. From Wordnik.com. [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference
The poet every day indulged his easy and charming vein of amatory and panegyrical poetry, while all the world read and admired his verses. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
At the same time they point out the panegyrical and ultra-filial character of her work, it being formally devoted to the fame and honor of her father. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Of his nobler and more weighty performances, the greater part is panegyrical: for of praise he was very lavish, as is observed by his imitator, Lord Lansdowne. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
It would have strained the ingenuity and the enthusiasm of Claud Halcro himself to have extracted matter for a panegyrical ode on this conversion of "glorious John.". From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
'In the second class should be ranked such as possessed the true poetical genius in a more moderate degree, but who had noble talents for moral, ethical, and panegyrical poetry.'. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
His biography by Bishop Asser, his counsellor and friend, which forms the principal authority, is panegyrical and uncritical, not to mention that a doubt rests on the authenticity of some portions of it. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
College-Street, one pair of stairs room; yea, with our Oronoko, and if thou wilt send me by the bearer, four pipes, I will write a panegyrical epic poem upon thee, with as many books as there are letters in thy name. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
No, sir; 'twas I first enriched their style -- 'twas I first taught them to crowd their advertisements with panegyrical superlatives, each epithet rising above the other, like the bidders in their own auction rooms!. From Wordnik.com. [Scarborough and the Critic] Reference
"In the last 'Edinburgh Review' you will find two articles of mine, one on Rogers, and the other on Madame de Staël: they are both, especially the first, thought too panegyrical. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference
• See a much more panegyrical Memoir, in Gent. From Wordnik.com. [Peerage of England. ...] Reference
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