encomium

Mrs. Robinson had afterwards the gratification of finding this offspring of her genius inserted in the Annual Register, with a flattering encomium from the pen of the eloquent and ingenious editor.

Memoirs of Mary Robinson Mary Elizabeth Robinson 1895

Mantinea, and which you may call the encomium of love, or what you please.

The Symposium 2006

Such, Phaedrus, is the tale which I heard from the stranger of Mantinea, and which you may call the encomium of love, or what you please.

Symposium 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

Such an encomium, which is thrown away on the dead

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

The spectacle is declared by the Americans themselves to have been one of the highest moral grandeur, if not of sublimity; and, though our cousins on this side of the water are somewhat too much in the habit of using fine words and indulging in hyperbole, no one who witnessed the long lines of busy men, neglecting their business for awhile to attend to the more important business of the State, and waiting patiently in the street amid the fog and rain until it came to their turn to deposit their balloting-paper in the appointed box -- using no jostling in pressing, indulging in no altercation with each other on the exciting subject which drew them together, and in every way behaving with as much subdued dignity as if they were attending a place of worship -- can deny that the encomium is abundantly merited.

The Presidential Contest in America 1864

By the time our friend has reached the eleventh chapter of Hebrews the eloquent encomium which is there pronounced upon faith will not seem strange to him.

The Pursuit of God 1930

You have used with _propriety_ the words "encomium" and

Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete 1811

You have used with _propriety_ the words "encomium" and

Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1. 1811

Such an encomium, which is thrown away on the dead Templars, would be highly valued by the historians of Malta.] 130 Matthew Paris, Hist.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

And it was just that sort of encomium that gave fodder to writers who disdained her response to movies, many of those writers whom she in her turn disdained.

David Finkle: Easy Reader: Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Throws Radiant Light on the Renowned Movie Critic David Finkle 2011