I have gone through many books and pamphlets which furnished no quotable extracts, but none that diverged in tone from the rest, or marred the majestic unison of German self-laudation and contempt for the rest of the world.
Buononcini's work is theme For fit laudation of the impartial few: (We stand in England, mind you!
That laudation of Socrates at the beginning, and the description of the "little boxes called Silent" that outside have so grotesque an adornment, but within are full of ambergris and myrrh and all manner of precious odours.
This very laudation of continence is itself an emphasis upon sex.
Anacreon devotes one of his longest and best odes to the laudation of the Rose.
The poet then goes on with his hearty laudation of this lilliputian luminary of the fields, and hesitates not to describe it as "of all floures the floure.
It is the prevailing of Wisdom over Accident; and it, in turn, both produces and is the Glory and Laudation of the Great Infinite Contriver, whose plan is thus Successful and Victorious.
Wise uttered "a motley compound of eloquence and folly, of braggart impudence and childish vanity, of self-laudation and Virginian narrow-mindedness.
These songs were in his day still sung at the public dances of the natives, and he adds, "although they were filled with laudation of their ancient rulers, it gave me much pleasure to hear the praises of such grandeur.
Because of their unexcelled success, these two were the targets for the bitter invective or the envy of their competitors on the one hand, and, on the other, of the laudation of their friends and beneficiaries.
The last years of this magnate were passed in an atmosphere of luxury, laudation and power.
I admit that this is a piece of self-laudation that a man could hardly be justified in bestowing upon himself.
In the following pages no attempt at either laudation or depreciation has been made.
To a New England writer, accustomed to the unbridled laudationof his own State and ancestry as those who led the Teutonic-American colonies in the struggle for liberty, the doings in the New York Assembly may seem “teapot-tempest politics.
Though I was not, and am not, one of those who rage against over-great praise, when there is any true foundation for it, I had never been able to understand the laudation of which he was the subject.
The laudation of the artist, the writer, and the actor returns anew with the end of the world's great year.
That is vain glory then when men seem to praise themselves that they may call forth the laudation of others; and it is especially despised because it seems to proceed from ambition and an unseasonable opinion of oneself.
This kind of self-laudation benefits the hearer, and changes his opinion.
With this kind of self-laudation you may see that soldiers and sailors are most taken.
Moreover that kind of conversation that mainly consists of censuring and running down others is dangerous as giving opportunity for self-laudation to those who pine for fame.
For people will hardly condemn such men, for they are elevated and cheered and inspired by noble self-laudation such as this, if it have a true basis, as all history testifies.
The orator lets himself go in laudation of Maximilian, Ferdinand, Joanna, and Philip himself, with confident prediction of a magnificent future.
The same tone of extremelaudation is kept up in a short and hurried letter[34] sent back to Battus from Antwerp on his way home.
Well, the book has reached me, and I finished its careful perusal four days ago; and I freely say that your laudation is not out of place.
For the rest, it is an enthusiastic review of poetry, culminating in a laudation of Shakespeare.
No journal or magazine recorded the death of the forgotten poet, though Goldsmith, only two months before, had begun the laudation which was soon to become universal.
Their efforts in this direction have fully earned for them their own peculiar form of laudation as "actually equal to cash.
Laudation could scarcely be pitched in higher tone towards the works of the great Youatt, or Mr Huxtable's contributions to the department of literature devoted to manure and pigs.
I mean that the gross and unintelligent laudation of any artist who arrives at what is called assured fame, naturally turns one's mind on to the critical consciousness of his imperfections.
If you press me, I should consider that both the extravagant laudation and the equally extravagant reaction are entirely vulgar and horrible.
There is something so remarkable in this universal laudationthat the effect on me, strange as it may seem, is rather depressing than exhilarating.
This check to self-laudation came at an appropriate moment, as he said, for just at this time honors were being plentifully showered upon him.
He wrote a review of me in just that spirit--the two extremes of laudation and reprehension, folded in on one another.
If reluctant laudation is most sincere, then Boswell himself said of Goldsmith that there was nothing that he touched that he did not adorn.
Its production made Johnson burst forth into that splendour of laudation in which he said that whatever Goldsmith did, he did better than all others, and he counted him as an historian superior to Hume, Smollett, and Lyttelton.
The authorship of the notes is placed beyond doubt by a letter of Guarini's, otherwise it might have been doubted whether even he could have been guilty of the fulsome self-laudation they contain.
But we sometimes find the mere laudation of woman herself, apart from any direct anti-manism, assume the character of an intellectual emetic.
If men can lay the butter on thick in theirlaudation of womanhood, female idolaters of their own sex can fairly outbid them.
His duty it was to stimulate the exertions of his friends by much laudation of their efforts, and at the same time to excite their hatred of the quarry by bitter cursing and vituperation of the same.
No one noticed his movements, every one being too excited by the recent sensational finish, and engaged in the laudation of Ferrers, who was the hero of the hour.
