panderism

• There is nothing that so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favour with them; nor panderism so apt and so usually made use of to corrupt the chastity of women as to wheedle and entertain them with their own praises. —  The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
• Our hatred and contempt of Leigh Hunt as a writer, is not so much owing to his shameless irreverence to his aged and afflicted king -- to his profligate attacks on the character of the king's sons -- to his low-born insolence to that aristocracy with whom he would in vain claim the alliance of one illustrious friendship -- to his paid panderism to the vilest passions of that mob of which he is himself a firebrand -- to the leprous crust of self-conceit with which his whole moral being is indurated -- to that loathsome vulgarity which constantly clings round him like a vermined garment from St. Giles '-- to that irritable temper which keeps the unhappy man, in spite even of his vanity, in a perpetual fret with himself and all the world beside, and that shews itself equally in his deadly enmities and capricious friendships, -- our hatred and contempt of Leigh Hunt, we say, is not so much owing to these and other causes, as to the odious and unnatural harlotry of his polluted muse. —  Famous Reviews

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