encomiastic
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It is the encomiastic mood that makes them so charming.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry
Let us now have before us “The King of Yvetot,” with an appropriate contrast to it afterward supplied in one of these encomiastic pieces.
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
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 Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin
At the publication the wits seemed proud to pay their attendance with encomiastic verses.
From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
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