I do not recollect to have seen the landscapes of Pecchio in Verona, though the fine encomium bestowed upon him by Balestra, in one of his Lettere Pittoriche, leads me to hold him in high esteem.
This hateful encomium of commiseration transfixed him.
In quoting the decision of the Executive on that case, the gentleman from New York has taken occasion to bestow a highencomium on the late President; and to consider his conduct as furnishing an example worthy the imitation of his successor.
The security is insufficient, and the encomium belongs to Constantinople.
If the only results of this invective and encomium were to exalt still higher the oratorical fame of the speaker, I should spend not a moment in remarking upon them.
Tocqueville had in his eye when he bestowed such encomium on that body had come from the House of Representatives!
They well deserved the encomiumof Ragazzoni, "You have been our excellent leaders and directors in action.
Perhaps the best encomium of the council is that the Catholic of to-day reads with astonishment of abuses and measures of reform in the sixteenth century.
These Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum, when compared with the Encomium Moriae of Erasmus, show how immeasurably inferior the ordinary German Humanist was to the scholar of the Low Countries.
As a lover of Nature, and an artist in prose, he needs no encomium to-day.
He was a Bohemian of the finer order, and his graces of character need no encomium to-day.
Encomium Emmæ," and was written in those daies, it dooth and may appeare.
Encomium Emmæ, an old Pamphlet written to hir, conteining much good matter for the vnderstanding of the state of this realme in hir time, wherein hir praise is not pretermitted, and so hath obteined by reason thereof that title.
Scaliger made a very high encomium on the young author in some fine verses which are much to Grotius' honour.
The greatest encomium of the new-married lady is, that she was worthy such a husband as Grotius.
Vulcanus Bonaventura, his encomium of Grotius on occasion of his edition of Aratus's Phoenomena, 17.
We have a very great encomium of this Simon the Just, the son of Onias, in the fiftieth chapter of the Ecclesiasticus, through the whole chapter.
At other times the stream of his satiric vein flows on with a blended clearness and energy, which has commanded the warm encomium of Campbell, and which prompted the diligent study of Pope.
On the sea-shore we found, in full blossom, several fine trees, of the Barringtonia speciosa, a tree well deserving of the encomium which its beautiful appearance has elicited from authors.
We were too late to enjoy the Mangosteen in its greatest perfection, yet from the few which were still to be procured, we considered it well entitled to the encomium so often bestowed upon it by travellers.
It was the praise of Dryden that he was the best reasoner in verse who ever wrote; let it be the encomium of our departed Sidney that, he was one of the best reasoners in wit of whom our country can boast.
His Encomium Moriae was sketched on a journey from Italy (1509) and written while he was the guest of Sir Thomas More in London.
The Encomium Moriæ was received with applause by all who loved merriment, and all who hated the monks; but grave men, as usual, could not bear to see ridicule employed against grave folly and hypocrisy.
He began his attack in his Encomium Moriæ, the praise of folly.
It is a metrical satire on the follies of every class, and may possibly have suggested to Erasmus his Encomium Moriæ.
If the noble lord had, before he entered upon his encomium on moderation, considered what effects could be promised from his favourite virtue, he would have had no inclination to display his eloquence upon it.
Pardon, my dear reader, the omission of a pompous encomium on their beauty, or duration.
Johnson, in his Life of Watts, has bestowed a just and exalted encomium upon him for not disdaining to descend from the pride of genius and the dignity of science to write for the wants and the capacities of children.
I wish it deserved any part of the high encomium you bestowed on it.
