encomium

• “Mrs. Robinson had afterwards the gratification of finding this offspring of her genius inserted in the Annual Register, with a flattering encomium from the pen of the eloquent and ingenious editor.”

  Memoirs of Mary Robinson

• “Mantinea, and which you may call the encomium of love, or what you please.”

  The Symposium

• “Such, Phaedrus, is the tale which I heard from the stranger of Mantinea, and which you may call the encomium of love, or what you please.”

  Symposium

• “Such an encomium, which is thrown away on the dead”

  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5

• “The spectacle is declared by the Americans themselves to have been one of the highest moral grandeur, if not of sublimity; and, though our cousins on this side of the water are somewhat too much in the habit of using fine words and indulging in hyperbole, no one who witnessed the long lines of busy men, neglecting their business for awhile to attend to the more important business of the State, and waiting patiently in the street amid the fog and rain until it came to their turn to deposit their balloting-paper in the appointed box -- using no jostling in pressing, indulging in no altercation with each other on the exciting subject which drew them together, and in every way behaving with as much subdued dignity as if they were attending a place of worship -- can deny that the encomium is abundantly merited.”

  The Presidential Contest in America

• “By the time our friend has reached the eleventh chapter of Hebrews the eloquent encomium which is there pronounced upon faith will not seem strange to him.”

  The Pursuit of God

• “You have used with _propriety_ the words "encomium" and”

  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.

• “Such an encomium, which is thrown away on the dead Templars, would be highly valued by the historians of Malta.] 130 Matthew Paris, Hist.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “And it was just that sort of encomium that gave fodder to writers who disdained her response to movies, many of those writers whom she in her turn disdained.”

  The Huffington Post: David Finkle: Easy Reader: Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Throws Radiant Light on the Renowned Movie Critic

• “True, some designers went defiantly, exuberantly over the top — Marc Jacobs most obviously, with his nostalgic, big-shouldered encomium to the 1980s, when the great splurge had begun.”

  Fashion in Dark Times

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