There are extant of this author's, four plays, besides other poems, all which were printed together in 1651, to which are prefixed above fifty copies of commendatory verses by the most eminent wits of the university.
At the beginning of this volume are inserted a great number of commendatory verses, written by the most eminent wits of that age.
Gifford tells us that he has never mentioned one of his contemporaries with commendation, and only once appears, with Jonson and others, to have contributed some commendatory lines to the volume of an obscure and whimsical poet.
Days of decline came for Jumièges under her commendatory abbots.
The Revolution finished what the Huguenot wars and the absentee commendatory abbots began.
The evil consequences of commendatory abbots--those named by royal whim--bore bitter fruit from end to end of France in the relaxed spiritual life of the monasteries.
Powell, in return, wrote commendatorypoems to both the Olor Iscanus and the Thalia Rediviva.
Vaughan's lines are not, however, amongst the commendatory verses there given.
That she should have succeeded in any degree without his assistance, was a puzzle, and the premonitory symptoms of her popularity, which his weekly exchanges furnished, in the shape of commendatory notices, were gall and wormwood to him.
It was explained and stated so as to leave no room for human virtue as a commendatory merit.
With regard to the estates possessed by bishops and canons and commendatory abbots, I cannot find out for what reason some landed estates may not be held otherwise than by inheritance.
The bishoprics and the greatcommendatory abbeys were, with few exceptions, held by that order.
If this comedy, is no better than these wretched commendatory lines, it is miserable indeed.
Without letters commendatory of their bishops, it is not permitted to the clergy to travel.
The Life is sprinkled with quotations from the third edition, 118 lines in all, mostly from Courtenay's commendatory verses.
For the most part, the commendatory section of the poem is an unsystematic tracing of Johnson's moral and literary merits.
It has also the title-page dated 1668, and Marvell's commendatoryverses in MS.
Footnote 23: In one of the commendatory poems in the first folio edition: And on the stage at half sword parley were Brutus and Cassius.
He is by no means blind to the gallantry of his men, and never fails to notice and appreciate their deeds, but they never win from him any other than the coldest words in the coldest, but, at the same time, kindest of commendatory tones.
Commendatory verses were supplied by Ben Jonson, Hugh Holland, Leonard Digges, and I.
Leonard Digges, in commendatory verses before the First Folio of 1623, wrote that Shakespeare's works would be alive [When] Time dissolves thy Stratford monument.
The dedicatory epistles, commendatory poem, and Catalogue of Plays, prefixed to the First Folio, are reprinted in the preliminary pages at the end of this Note (pp.
Three of the commendatory poems are in sonnet-form, and their inclusion brings us nearer the whole number published by Drayton; of which there are doubtless a few still lacking.
Many a commendatory message and many a cheering visit was paid the troops by General Ironside but we can not record the same for Colonel Stewart.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commendatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
