panegyric

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Sir Henry Wotton, in his Panegyric to King Charles, says of King James I.,—“I will not deny his appetite of glory, which generous minds do ever latest part from.”

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John

The Panegyric is now reprinted for the first time.

From An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661) by Keynes, Geoffrey

But there is nothing very great about Pliny's Panegyric, and a man must be a very queer bibliomaniac who would buy up all the vellum classics of the last century he saw.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various

Like other poets, he praised Cromwell in 1654 in A Panegyric, and welcomed Charles II. in 1660, upon His Majesty's Happy Return.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

This was a Panegyric the more pleasing to the Subject of it, because it proceeded from the Mouth of a Prince, who was too great a Master of Courage to be mistaken.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von