"I for my part hastened to my chamber, and shutting the door fell on my knees with a cry of joyful praise.

"Damn with faint praise, assent with leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.

George was not disposed to like Mr. Washington any better for his mother's extravagant praises.

They have but little praise and reward from the partisans who are loud in indiscriminate censure and applause.

He only of us was incorporate In all that fabric; stone by stone Had built his life in her, had made his fate And her perfection one; Given all he had; and nowwhen all was given Far spent, within a private shade, Heard the loud organ pealing praise to Heaven, And learned why man is made.

This Goodness, Sir, resembles that of Heaven, Preserving what it made, and can be paid Only with grateful Praise as we do that.

(In Tuneful praise)

Cornelia wrote me a grateful letter, full of enthusiastic praises of 'her pet, her darling, the dearest, sweetest, cutest little bird that ever anybody owned.'

Having driven them out, the 75th pushed on to gain the pass into the hills and to begin two days of fighting which earned the unstinted praise of General Bulfin who witnessed it.

That we ought not to descend to the meanest of flattery, that we ought to preserve the privilege of speaking, without exaggerated praises, or affected acknowledgments, our regard not only to ourselves, but to our sovereign ought to remind us.

Dick set out in great state, filled with the importance of his mission and the glory of Jack's cordial praises.

When they were midway on their journey Haml began to utter lavish praises of Cais to the latter's face, and to blame his own brother's faults, in the following terms: "O Cais, do not let your wrath be stirred up against Hadifah, for he is verily a man headstrong and unjust in his actions.

It is based on the admiration of antiquity, on the universal praise which his creations extorted even from the severest critics in an age of Art, when the best energies of an ingenious people were directed to it with the absorbing devotion now given to mechanical inventions and those pursuits which make men rich and comfortable.

"To the most holy and undivided Trinity, to the humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified, to the fruitful virginity of the most glorious Mary ever a Virgin, and to the company of all the saints, be given by every creature eternal praise, honour, power and glory, and to us the remission of all our sins.

On the other hand, to read selections here and there, as most of us do, is to get a wrong idea of the man and to join either in fulsome praise of his brilliant oratory, or in honest confession that his periods are ponderous and his ideas often buried under Johnsonian verbiage.

I felt my cue, and strong pity working at the root, I went to work and beslabber'd "Alfred" with most unqualified praise, or only qualifying my praise by the occasional polite interposition of an exception taken against trivial faults, slips, and human imperfections, which, by removing the appearance of insincerity, did but in truth heighten the relish.

Proud lyres with thine immortal praises glow, Smitten by bards elate with victory: Lo, thine own Cavalcante, stormfully Lightning, still strikes the fortress of the foe!

To these a Virgin-modesty which first met Applause with blush and feare, as if he yet Had not deserv'd; till bold with constant praise His browes admitted the unsought for Bayes.

False praise dies away; collusion comes to an end; critics declare the reputation ungrounded; it vanishes, and is replaced by so much the greater contempt.

Vergil in his eighth Eclogue, perhaps with over-generous praise, compares these plays with those of Sophocles.

Excessive praise of any one's talents drives him into admiration of the parts of his own learned pig, now wallowing in the stye.

Till then give leave to me in pleasant mew** To sport my Muse, and sing my Loves sweet praise, The contemplation of whose heavenly hew My spirit to an higher pitch will rayse.

It deserves especial praise for its accurate copying of nature, the varied beauty of its coloring, and the deep longing of the heartthe hunger of the soulwhich must have inspired the fair artist.

Of The Bride, engraved by Charles Heath, from a picture by Leslie, it is impossible to speak in terms of sufficient praise, as it is, without exception, one of the loveliest prints ever beheld.

A big man is humbled by honest praise, And tries to think of all the ways To improve his work and do it well; But a little man starts of himself to yell!