encomiastic

At the publication the wits seemed proud to pay their attendance with encomiastic verses.

From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson

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

From Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by Various

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 Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence

The last contains notices of the most distinguished individuals of the court of Henry IV., which, although too indiscriminately encomiastic, are valuable subsidiaries to an accurate acquaintance with the prominent actors of the period.

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

Indeed the press of London had yielded itself up to an encomiastic orgy.

From Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days by Arnold Bennett