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The account of Shakspeare may stand as a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism, exact without minuteness, and lofty without exaggeration.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

It is the encomiastic mood that makes them so charming.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry

Johnson afterwards pronounced it to be "a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism;" and Malone quoted it as an admirable character of Shakspere.

From Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by Various

To this pamphlet, Governor Hamilton had prefixed "an encomiastic advertisement."

From Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Turner, Frederick Jackson

The last contains notices of the most distinguished individuals of the court of Henry IV., which, although too indiscriminately encomiastic, are valuable subsidiaries to an accurate acquaintance with the prominent actors of the period.

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by Prescott, William Hickling