eulogistic

• The most extensive of these, on Berlioz's "Harold Symphony," was to have been put into a celebrated review in Paris, but in the fifties it was considered too eulogistic, and I refused any curtailments for Berlioz...Consequently this article has only appeared in a German translation (Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, Leipzig). —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End"
• The review in the first-mentioned paper was unexpectedly and generously eulogistic, that in the Athenæum more qualified, but still not discouraging. —  Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle
• And since that time, whether satirical or frankly funny, sarcastic or witty, compassionate or denunciatory, eulogistic, sympathetic, indignant, or merely expository, the cartoons have rarely overstepped the boundary of good taste, or done aught but express fearlessly, honestly, and so far as may be gracefully, the popular feeling of the moment It is just this happy ability of Punch's to reflect the opinion of the country that gave it the great power it attained and won it the respect of every successive Government. —  The History of "Punch"
• The Oraison Funčbre of the French proposes to itself by its original model, which must be sought in the Epideictic or panegyrical oratory of the Greeks, a purpose purely and exclusively eulogistic: the problem supposed is to abstract from everything not meritorious, to expand and develop the total splendour of the individual out of that one centre, that main beneficial relation to his own age, from which this splendour radiated. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
• Several other officers also thanked me for supporting the reputation of the navy, Captain Nelson being especially eulogistic--for him--on the subject. —  Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War

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