Cornelio Tacito: nam hic supremus felicitati eius cumulus accessit, laudator eloquentissimus. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Sometimes, perhaps, through the vanity that clings to us all to the end, I play the part of "laudator temporis acti," and then the young fellows shout.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

And this frank admission ought to show that I am not your mere twaddling laudator temporis acti — your old fogy who can see no good except in his own time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roundabout Papers] Reference

It will seem strange to many of my critics who regard me as a typical laudator temporis acti that this question should have arisen so comparatively late in my life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprised by Joy]

Now, at the risk of being thought "a laudator" of time present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friends in Council — First Series] Reference

Recte is dicitur laudare sese, cui nemo alius contigit laudator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rambler, sections 171-208 (1751-1752); The Adventurer, sections 34-108 (1753); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume IV] Reference

Nam Gubernator, ut totus mundus noscit, semper fuit laudator Classicorum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887] Reference

The laudator temperis acti is out of favour just now: the world is on the move.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

As for boasting of our past, the laudator temporis acti makes but a poor figure in our time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Teacups] Reference

Musings on roots and branches by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).    From Wordnik.com.  [Laudator Temporis Acti] Reference

So will some unborn/laudator temporis acti/speak in some dim century to be, when our sorrows have faded and are not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life] Reference

Complaints and quotations about this and that by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).    From Wordnik.com.  [Laudator Temporis Acti] Reference

When or where this laudator temporis acti closed his wanderings, the author never heard with certainty; but most probably, as Burns says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference

No doubt there is something of idealization in all these reminiscences, and of that exaggeration which belongs to the laudator temporis acti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

And this frank admission ought to show that I am not your mere twaddling laudator temporis acti -- your old fogy who can see no good except in his own time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roundabout Papers] Reference

But we are no laudator of acted time; the fireplace has been bricked up, it is true; but the sweet cider is admirable, and as for the cheesecake, we would back it against all the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pipefuls] Reference

He was naturally a laudator temporis acti.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868] Reference

"laudator temporis acti?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference