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Example sentences for "panegyric"

Lexicographically close words:
pandita; pandits; pane; paned; panee; panegyrical; panegyrick; panegyricks; panegyrics; panegyrist
  1. Mr. Bryce feels strongly for the men who practised what Catharine thought so difficult, and he stops for a moment in the midst of his very impersonal treatise to deliver a panegyric on Alexander Hamilton.

  2. His submission to external testimony appeared in his panegyric of our Indian empire, where he overstated the increase of population.

  3. Footnote 212: Its most tedious episode is a panegyric of Venice at the expense of Rome (act iii.

  4. A man of mature years opens the discussion with a long panegyric of wedded love, serving as introduction to the tales which treat of illicit passion.

  5. Bembo makes frequent and respectful references to him in his letters, and Giasone de Nores wrote a magnificent panegyric of him in the preface to his commentary on Horace's Ars Poetica, which he professed to have derived orally from Trifone.

  6. La Casa gratified the same Academies with his panegyric of the Oven and his scholastic exercises in a metaphysical emotion.

  7. On this point Jewish writers appear to be better informed than the rest of the world, for Monsieur Léon Kahn in his panegyric on the part played by his co-religionists in the Revolution[628] finds Jews where even Drumont failed to detect them.

  8. Not merely in partisan works, but in manuals of history or literature for use in Schools, Burke is reproached for warning us against the French Revolution and Carlyle's panegyric is applauded.

  9. Simonides passed much of his life at the courts of princes, and often employed his talents in panegyric and festal odes, receiving his reward from the munificence of those whose exploits he celebrated.

  10. But in this case nothing is recorded of the history of the preceding year, the speech being simply a panegyric of the Founder.

  11. Every panegyric contained in them is extravagant and hyperbolical, and every censure exaggerated and excessive.

  12. Commenting on George Sand's generous panegyric of her brother, she adds: "It is an error to speak of his extreme moderation.

  13. I am much more diverted with the philosopher D'Alembert's underhand dealings, than I should have been pleased with panegyric even from you.

  14. I suppose he is writing a tragedy himself, or an epistle to my Lord Melcomb, or a panegyric on my Lord Bute.

  15. Your ladyship can endure the panegyric of your friends.

  16. He gained applause by a panegyric on Marcus Crassus from the Rostra, and a few days after he abused him, on which Crassus observed, "Did you not lately praise me in the same place?

  17. The critic should have considered, that Troy was not actually blazing when the old counsellor pronounced his panegyric upon Helen's beauty.

  18. I have read this panegyric of him: "He is known to possess no individuality or opinion of his own whatsoever.

  19. To his Friend, a Panegyric upon his lovers, Albino and Bellama.

  20. From your own essence must I first untwine, Then twist again each panegyric line.

  21. His Panegyric on the Restoration appeared in 1661, and contained a statement that the author 'intended a larger book of poems according as these find acceptance'.

  22. My first composition after I left school was a panegyric on pope Alexander IV.

  23. I am no stranger to the faults and defects of the subverted government of France; and I think I am not inclined by nature or policy to make a panegyric upon anything which is a just and natural object of censure.

  24. His speech to the National Assembly contained a high and labored panegyric on the inhabitants of Paris, for the constancy and unbroken resolution with which they have borne their distress and misery.

  25. On reflection, however, he came to the conclusion that they were probably the work of Cassiodorus, and formed part of a panegyric addressed to Theodoric.

  26. Now if you leave it to posterity to write the panegyric on these men, you take away as it were from those who die an honourable death the funeral oration to which, by the customs of our ancestors, they are entitled.

  27. I express no opinion about the text of this edition; but it possesses the advantage of an Index to the 'Variae' only, which will be found at the end of the Panegyric of Ennodius.

  28. Avienus pronounces Symmachus and his confirmed in Flavius panegyric the Pompeius.

  29. They express the same ideas as the panegyric of the Marechal de Saxe, but I confess that your prose pleases me a great deal more.

  30. The next morning Patu called and made me a present of his prose panegyric on the Marechal de Saxe.

  31. And, from hence, what noble Excursions may be made into History, into Panegyric upon the greatest Beauties or Hero's of the past or present Age?

  32. That is to say, he made the man whose work he stole pronounce its panegyric and refer it to the thief.

  33. Some verses in the Panegyric addressed by Wippo to the Emperor Henry III.

  34. Some trace of them is found in the verses of Hilary in the fourth century, but we find them first regularly adopted in a Latin panegyric written for Clotaire II.

  35. His supremacy in panegyric was acknowledged by Farazdaq, and he himself claims to have surpassed all competitors in three styles, viz.

  36. When the Quraysh heard of this, they feared lest their adversary's reputation should be increased by the panegyric of a bard so famous and popular.

  37. The closing verses are devoted, in accordance with custom, to matters of immediate interest and to a panegyric on the virtues of the poet's kin.

  38. On one occasion a poet came to MahdA-, who was then heir-apparent, at Rayy, and recited a panegyric in his honour.

  39. From Bishop Hooper the panegyric is evidence that Haddon belonged to the extreme party in theological matters, in which Aylmer was probably in full accord with him.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "panegyric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accolade; adulation; apotheosis; appreciative; citation; complimentary; congratulation; deification; encomium; eulogy; exaltation; flattering; flattery; glorification; glory; homage; hommage; honor; idolatry; kudos; magnification; oration; paean; panegyric; praise; regardful; respectful; salutation; tribute