encomiastic

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How splendid—what taste—how very beautiful—so elegant—so massive—so chaste! and fifty other encomiastic phrases.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

This little book contains an account of the trial of Richard II., and was dedicated to the Earl of Essex in very encomiastic terms.

From Bacon is Shake-Speare by Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin

The account of Shakspeare may stand as a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism, exact without minuteness, and lofty without exaggeration.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

The fifty "sessions" of Hariri, which are written in rhymed prose interspersed with poetry, contain oratorical, poetical, moral, encomiastic, and satirical discourses, which only the merest thread holds together.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

There is no effort to conceal any facts which may be supposed to weaken the general impression, or to introduce explanatory or encomiastic statements which may be thought to strengthen and enhance it.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus