Shakespeare of course had no interest in the "distinctive principles of Western Civilization" (wouldn't have known what they were), did not in the least express something called the "Western vision," was certainly no "encomiast of his culture and society" (far from it), and sought to exemplify nothing but the possibilities of the forms in which he wrote and whatever personal "vision" of human existence he had managed to acquire. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Imbued with the righteous moral fervor of a revolutionary, the negativist — to introduce a new literary type — is more persuasive than the encomiast, who tends to resort to the bland, formulaic language of praise. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The encomiast after his manner appears to treat them as one. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A man of genius may securely laugh at a mode of attack, by which his reviler in half a century or less, becomes his encomiast ❋ Unknown (2003)
From The Atlantic's Fiction Issue: Imbued with the righteous moral fervor of a revolutionary, the negativist -to introduce a new literary type- is more pesuasive than the encomiast, who tends to resort to the bland formulaic language of praise. ❋ Miss Snark (2005)
It would require some ingenuity to shew why women were to be under such an obligation to him for thus admitting love; when it is clear that he admits it only for the relaxation of men, and to perpetuate the species; but he talked with passion, and that powerful spell worked on the sensibility of a young encomiast. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Noting that Caesar faced mutinies, Griffin dismisses me as an "overoptimistic encomiast" of the legionaries. ❋ Kahn, Arthur D. (1988)
In fairness, should not Griffin have noted that an unreserved encomiast of Caesar's Gallic victories was Griffin's favorite, Cicero? ❋ Kahn, Arthur D. (1988)
Our Saviour himself becomes both her advocate and encomiast. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)
She needs no encomiast, star-crowned she stands, the glory of America, the admiration of the world. ❋ Unknown (1919)
Friendship, that theme of the encomiast, is neither more nor less, you will find, than the beginning of sponging. ❋ Of Samosata Lucian (1895)
Abul Fazl, the historian and friend of the magnanimous Akbar, and the encomiast and advocate of the Hindu race. ❋ Robert Vane Russell (1894)
But to-day the worthy old Federalists celebrate with all the honors the tough old Democrat's birth-day, and his chief panegyrist and encomiast is one who, when he was alive, thus damned him in flowing numbers: ❋ Unknown (1860)
For often he says to me in an indignant tone: -- 'What a strange thing it is, Eryximachus, that, whereas other gods have poems and hymns made in their honour, the great and glorious god, Love, has no encomiast among all the poets who are so many. ❋ 427? BC-347? BC Plato (1855)
Martyr, however, was never an extravagant encomiast of the cardinal, and one may imagine much more creditable reasons, than that assigned, for his disgust with him now. ❋ William Hickling Prescott (1827)
