In how few of these once lauded works there dwells the power to speak in an intelligible language to a generation which tests them, not for their patriotism, but for their intrinsic art.
Makart, so much lauded as a painter of flesh, was never really able to paint flesh at all.
Whose name was lauded and whose poem was recited at every Fourth of July celebration, that the very children might learn it and honor its composer!
Had he succeeded in realizing his ambitions--and he failed only by the narrowest of margins--he would have been lauded as another Cortez, and would have received stars and crosses instead of bullets.
Odilon Redon, the lithographer and illustrator of Poe, is lauded by Des Esseintes.
They should rather have been lauded for the simplicity which they studied; which is so requisite in all teaching.
This is the right place to consider the nature of those Greek democracies that followed upon the expulsion of aristocrats and tyrants, and that have been so lauded in modern histories.
They boasted of their infidelities, lauded their lovers, and producing their children, with laughs of derision, bade him note the astounding resemblance!
His services as Chief Justice have been so lauded that what he did before he ascended the Supreme Bench has been almost entirely forgotten.
He lauded the character of the Virginia Legislature, of which he had been a member.
This much-lauded policy is but another word for cowardice.
Figures "which can not lie" prove it to be a very useful institution, and the divine wisdom is greatly lauded in the contrivance of such an admirable means for preserving a healthful equilibrium in the industrial and business world.
His description of Sporus, lauded by Byron as a piece of imagination, is exceedingly artificial and far-fetched in its figures--a mere mass of smoked gumflowers.
We have seen how the opium habit may be acquired by the use of the various proprietary or secret preparations, and so the cocaine habit may be developed by the use of these much lauded soft drinks.
The sincerity thus lauded had been recently tested.
So lauded be Almighty Allah and to Him be praise and thanks and goodly gratitude!
It lauded the life filled with the perception and appreciation of the beautiful as the only free life, and pronounced every other way of life to be servile.
Billy said he was, for he could pull him about anywhere; saying which he put him boldly at a water furrow, and lauded handsomely on the far side.
In proportion as they lauded Billy they decried Mrs. Yammerton; she was a nasty, cunning, designing woman, always looking after somebody.
Ignat had given the money, and already the newspapers lauded him for his generosity.
There is one writer of feuilletons here; you know, that some one who always lauded you, what's his name?
Lubov grew excited as she lauded her beloved people; her face was flushed, and her eyes looked at her father with so much feeling, as though imploring him to believe her, being unable to convince him.
But upon its existence depended the solution of his lauded problems.
The color is not good, but all the rest excellent; and one of these so much-lauded pictures is the portrait of a washer-woman.
