It is an agreeable thing to find a man whose work has been overpraised writing better than he has ever done before.
A reaction is sure to follow, and in the case of this novelist, so modest and strenuous herself, but so ridiculously overpraised by her friends, it came with remarkable celerity.
But I am disposed to infer from the overpraised Nike, which certainly is the work of Paeonius, that he was not an artist of the quality of the great Attic school.
Giulio Romana, Penni, and perhaps another, turned out these once celebrated and overpraised pictures--overpraised even if they had come from the brush of Raphael himself.
His Farmer's Boy, an estimable but much overpraised piece, was published in 1800, and he did other things later.
