Though Logotheti, who was only a Greek, did not understand every word of this panegyric, he perceived that it was intended for the highest praise.

That they are still prepared to praise or to abhor us, Satire they have, and panegyric for us.

Mr. Prior then proceeds to enumerate the valuable qualities of his patron; in which the warmth of his gratitude appears in the most elegant panegyric.

Two or three years after it was written, the impression of it was dedicated by the author's widow to the same nobleman, in which are some fulsome strains of panegyric, which perhaps her necessity excited her to use, from a view of enhancing her interest by flattery, which if excusable at all, is certainly so in a woman left destitute with a family, as she was.

He wrote several pieces in favour of James the IId's party: amongst which was a Panegyric on that King.

But so great a work is not to be dismissed with a mere rhapsody of panegyric.

"He was a man beyond definition," was her panegyric.

Doubtless many persons will urge that objection, and declare that the words here written are senseless panegyric.

Daniel in his Panegyric to the king.

The lecturer also paid, in his lecture, a high compliment to Allston by a deserved panegyric, and by several quotations from his poems, illustrative of principles which he advanced.

Upon him Johnson pronounced a panegyric which has contributed a proverbial phrase to the language.

At another time he checked Boswell's flow of panegyric by asking, "Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?"

There are then three kinds of causes; having for their respective objects, judgment, deliberation, and panegyric.

The object of panegyric is honour; concerning which also we have already spoken.

So there are three kinds,one of judgment, one of deliberation, one of embellishment; and this last, because it is chiefly employed in panegyric, has its peculiar name from that.

From which division three kinds of causes have arisen; one, which, from the best portion of it, is called that of panegyric; another that of deliberation; the third that of judicial decisions.

C.F. I understand the topics of panegyric and persuasion.

Ezziani's chronicle dates from the first part of the nineteenth century, and is an Arab's colorless panegyric of a great Arab ruler; but John Windus, the Englishman who accompanied Commodore Stewart's embassy to Meknez in 1721, saw the imperial palaces and their builder with his own eyes, and described them with the vivacity of a foreigner struck by every contrast.

Prose fledges into poetry, cold compliments warm into praise, eulogy rarifies into panegyric and goes off in rhapsody.

A newspaper panegyric on Fox, apparently from the pen of Dr. Parr, having been presented to his royal highness, he said that it reminded him of Machiavel's epitaph, 'Tanto nomini nullum Par eulogium.

She had turned it face outward and stood before it uttering childish panegyric.

He had been so habituated to panegyric, that the slightest criticism ruffled him, and now his works had suddenly become the subject of universal and outrageous attack; having lived only in a cloud of incense, he suddenly found himself in a pillory of moral indignation; his writings, his habits, his temper, his person, were all alike ridiculed and vilified.

Our materials are collected from all quarters, with but little of our own; so that we might praise all the authors without the charge of uncommon vanity; but panegyric savours much of the poppy, and we must use it accordingly.

no: it fell so short of my idea of it, mine, that I have resigned to Gray the office of writing its panegyric.

One of the eclogues opens with a panegyric on Gustavus Adolphus, in the midst of which a messenger enters bearing the news of his death, thus fixing the date of the poem in all probability in the winter of 1632-3.