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A somewhat panegyrical biography�� and a scholarly travel book�� concerning Edward of Wales are current.

From Time Magazine Archive

A French panegyrical poem, presented to Queen Elizabeth, in 1586, by Georges de la Motthe, a French refugee; with a prefatory address in prose.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn

The drama, being at length formed, naturally adhered to the first division of poetry, the satirical and panegyrical, which made tragedy and comedy.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

It would have strained the ingenuity and the enthusiasm of Claud Halcro himself to have extracted matter for a panegyrical ode on this conversion of "glorious John."

From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by Dryden, John

From these gazettes could be collected “a greater number of panegyrical paragraphs upon ‘le grand Franklin’ than upon any other man that ever lived.”

From The True Benjamin Franklin by Fisher, Sydney George