encomiastic

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Johnson afterwards pronounced it to be "a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism;" and Malone quoted it as an admirable character of Shakspere.

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But he is careful to recapitulate all his services, and the encomiastic notices they had drawn from various quarters, while he details his losses with the most elaborate minuteness.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)

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

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

In rhetoric, they say the first part was demonstrative or encomiastic, the second deliberative, the third judicial.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch