Panegyrick

Now considering how many Pages he has prodigally bestow'd upon it, in the very Latter I am taking cognizance of is it not very odd he should call Panegyrick a Slavish Disposition, and worse still that he should term it the most barren of all Subjects; what if I could prove, tha above half of his Three Sheets of Paper are of that kind of Panegyrick, which is so fatal to great Men.

Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to the Earl of Oxford, About the English Tongue. 1712

Panegyrick _a Slavish Disposition_, and worse still that he should term it the _most barren of all Subjects_; what if I could prove, that above half of his Three Sheets of Paper are of that kind of Panegyrick, which is so fatal to great Men.

Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley (1712) and The British Academy (1712) Arthur Maynwaring 1707

In a later edition, a printer also included a poem called A Panegyrick Upon Cundums – a hymn to the wondrous qualities of prophylactics, praising not only their contraceptive powers "Unknown big Belly, and squawling Brat" but also their usefulness in the quest for what we would now call safer sex.

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I well remember that Dr. Johnson maintained, that ‘If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was:’ and when I objected to the danger of telling that

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

People, by which the Wit and Eloquence of the Age were wholly turned into Panegyrick, the most barren of all Subjects: The great

A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue 2003

Panegyrick, that should carry in it all the Colours of Truth, nothing can be more ridiculous than to have recourse to our Jupiter's and Juno's

Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK HARD 1968

Panegyrick upon those Natural and Acquired Abilities, which so brightly

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

The fashion for hoops was revived in 1711, in which year was published in England "A Panegyrick upon the Late, but most Admirable Invention of the Hoop-Pettycoat."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

Antonius_, his Complaint of _Rosamond_ his _Panegyrick_, _Delia_, _&c.

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Translation of Fontenelle's Panegyrick on Dr.Morin. intern. evid.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887