encomium
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Charles Wuorinen, a brilliant modernist composer who was only 31 when his work "Time's Encomium" became the first electronic piece to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, died March 11 at a hospital in Manhattan.
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2020
JARLZBERG," I beg to inform him of the following translation of Erasmus' Praise of Folly:— "Moriæ Encomium, or the Praise of Folly, made English from the Latin of Erasmus by W. Kennet, of S. Edm.
From Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850 by Various
Moriæ Encomium a booke made in latyne by that great clerke Erasmus Roterodame.
From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.
Encomium, 186.Editions good and bad, 69-70.Elks, the Hercynian, 250.Elzeviers,
From The Book-Hunter at Home by Allan, P. B. M.
In the same category of works may be placed Erasmus's famous: "Moriae Encomium," Antwerp, 1512, 4to, translated by Sir T. Chaloner: "The Praise of Folie," London, 1549, 4to.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.
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