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There will be time for roasts, for best-of posts, for encomia.

Rock-star encomia would have been scarcer, but the Canadian model would have endured.

A Juilliard ensemble played a Haydn string quartet, and later Alfred published a collection of encomia.

At the end of August, John Zorn's record label, Tzadik, released "Encomia," 43 minutes of mostly solo-piano music by Mr. Zorn, performed by Stephen Gosling.

Beyond its personal encomia devoted to Scalia, the speech lays out Gorsuch's fundamental approach to interpreting law and the Constitution, which is very similar to the late justice's.

That has led to an absurd excess of encomia in these letters — but where that sort of grade inflation has become commonplace, it is (alas) no longer misleading.

Among the premieres, I was most struck by Mr. Gosling's take on the piano-miniature series "Encomia," which included tributes to composers as diverse as Charles Wuorinen and Debussy.

In America we're used to encomia to the Greatest Generation and the veterans of the Second World War—though they're diminishing, now nonagenarians wheeled out to give the crowd a wave on special occasions.

Underneath all those encomia to the acting and writing on "The Sopranos" or "Mad Men" or "Game of Thrones" was a baser pleasure: the gleeful catharsis of watching someone who isn't us get crushed under the wheel.

Charles Dantzig, "Dictionnaire Égoïste de la Littérature Française," mordant, funny and often true, with brillliant essays on "emotions" and "adjectives" as well as take-downs of Sartre and encomia to some of my favorites like Albert Cohen.

Trump's critics sometimes interpret his martial rhetoric and encomia to law enforcement and military personnel as sinister — a sign of a leader who privileges institutions of state violence and would be unafraid to use them to secure his hold on power.

The latest example of this narrative is Adam Serwer's essay in The Atlantic, "The Nationalist's Delusion," which has been praised to the skies by almost every liberal in my Twitter feed, and which comes on the heels of Ta-Nehisi Coates's similarly themed Atlantic essay, "The First White President," which earned similar encomia a couple of months ago.

The text is available online, but the traditional format is handsomely printed and distributed to enthusiasts in the wine trade: roughly 230 pages of manifesto, clarifications of obfuscating German nomenclature, encomia to soils, producer profiles that are memoir-y one moment and prayerful the next, impressionistic tasting notes on up to 500 wines, plus all sorts of essays sneaked in here and there.

His pupil Theodore Prodromos described smallpox. Between 1147 and 1166 he served as the Archbishop of Philippopolis. He wrote a monody on the death of Andronikos, son of Alexios I. He delivered basilikoi logoi (encomia) to the emperors John II and Manuel I.

Between 1962 and 1985, twelve new editions of his poems appeared, with many new ones from his manuscripts. Studies, articles, and encomia all appeared in literary magazines through this period, for Labiș proved an enduring source of inspiration and guidance for the 1960s generation of Romanian poets, led by Nichita Stănescu.

14–21 as pastoral by Sara Watson;Watson 1942 pp. 404–420 as part of classical philosophy by Maren-Sofie Rostvig;Rostvig 1962 as part of Renaissance encomia by S. P. Woodhouse and Douglas Bush,Woodhouse and Bush 1972 pp. 227–269 and as similar to Homeric hymns and Pindaric odes.Osgood 1900 pp.

Especially in his last two decades, Spatharis enjoyed wide acclaim and respect as a towering figure of the Greek shadow theatre and of cultural life in general. His death caused a stream of encomia from critics, journalists and public figures. He created the Spathario Museum in 1991, devoted exclusively to his art.

Sir Brian Tuke shadowed by Death, c.1540, by an anonymous artist after Holbein. Six portraits of Tuke are ascribed to Holbein, whose salary it was Tuke's business to pay. Tuke was a patron of learning as well as of art; John Leland speaks of his eloquence, and celebrates his praises in nine Latin poems in Encomia.

Describing himself as "an Englishe man borne, one of the quenes majesties suppliauntes, and enfourmed in my countrie fashions", Hartwell accused the exiled Shacklock of "grosse ignorance of our English customes". Four Latin lines by Thomas Newton in his Illustrium aliquot Anglorum Encomia (1589), addressed to Abraham Hartwell the younger, speak of the elder as a distinguished poet lately dead.

The information for the rest of Reccared's reign is scanty. John of Biclaro, Reccared's contemporary, ends his account with the Third Council of Toledo. Isidore of Seville, bishop Leander's brother, praises his peaceful government, clemency, and generosity: standard encomia. He returned various properties, even some private ones, that had been confiscated by his father, and founded many churches and monasteries.

Epideixis is Aristotle's least favored and clearly defined topic. Now considered to be the stuff of ceremonies with its exhortations, panegyrics, encomia, funeral orations and displays of oratorical prowess, epideictic rhetoric appears to most to be discourse less about depth and more attuned to style without substance. Still, the Art of Rhetoric is cited as an example of epideictic work (Lockwood, 1996). Epideixis may not deserve the charge of lacking depth.

In 1510, Andrea Matteo and other barons assemble in Naples Cathedral to protest the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition into the territory. The following year, he returns the collar of the French Order of Saint Michael. He died in Puglia in 1529. To literary men he was indeed a benefactor—hence the encomia which have been lavished upon him, and which, more than any merit of his own, obtained him distinction.

The exploits of the Shirley brothers were dramatised in the 1607 play The Travels of the Three English Brothers by John Day, William Rowley and George Wilkins. In 1609, Andreas Loeaechius (Andrew Leech), a Scot living in Kraków, Poland, wrote a Latin panegyric to Shirley entitled Encomia Nominis & Neoocij D. Roberti Sherlaeii. This text was translated in the same year by the English writer Thomas Middleton as Sir Robert Sherley his Entertainment in Cracovia.Daniel J. Vitkus. Intro.

Fleetwood was a hard-working judge, and was disappointed at not receiving higher preferment. His connection with Leicester was insisted on by Leicester's enemies, and he is called "Leicester's mad Recorder" in Leicester's Commonwealth, but he was at the same time assiduous in cultivating Lord Burghley's favour. He was noted for wit, and his eloquence is eulogised by Thomas Newton in his Encomia, 1589. He married Mariana, daughter of John Barley of Kingsey, Buckinghamshire, by whom he left a family of six sons and two daughters.

Theodore's Satire of the Tutor, written most likely in 1240, is his earliest extant work. The satire is dedicated to his principal tutor, portraying him as an under-educated and rude man, who learned magic while staying in Bulgaria. He also wrote encomia in praise of the citizens of Nicaea, his father and Akropolites. Theodore's theological works—including his First Oration against the Latins, or, on the Procession of the Holy Spirit, and his treatise On the Trinity—demonstrate his adherence to Orthodox theology.

Although the poem is Christian in content, and the use of rhyme reflects Christian rather than pagan Germanic poetry, it is often assigned to the genre of Preislied, a song in praise of a warrior, of a type which is presumed to have been common in Germanic oral tradition. Not all scholars agree, however. Other Carolingian-era Latin encomia are known for King Pippin of Italy (796) and the Emperor Louis II (871), and the rhyming form may have been inspired by the same form in Otfrid of Weissenburg's Evangelienbuch (Gospel Book), finished before 871.

The standard format for Liexian zhuan entries is to give the subject's name, sometimes style name, usually native place (or the formulaic "No one knows where he came from"), and often the period in which he or she supposedly lived. Sometime after the 330s, the text was appended with sets of laudatory zàn (, "encomia") that are rhymed hymns praising the recorded xian (Penny 2008: 653-654). Some editions include an old preface, of uncertain authorship and date, that is not included in the Daoist canonical edition (Campany 1996: 40-41).

" The New Yorker called it "graceful, mournful and often exuberant first book combines the best aspects of confessional and lyric poetry." Carol Muske in The Nation compared the "domestic" and "feminine" aspects to "Sylvia Plath and Louise Bogan". Subterranean (2001), was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Publisher’s Weekly wrote "This second collection... comes bespangled with impressive encomia from the likes of Harold Bloom, Eavan Boland and Molly Peacock, praising Bialosky's voice, her 'dark chill power' and the volume's 'mythic underworld collage.

Before the Divine Liturgy on this day, a special service, known as the "Triumph of Orthodoxy" is held in cathedrals and major monasteries, at which the synodicon (containing anathemas against various heresies, and encomia of those who have held fast to the Christian faith) is proclaimed. The theme of the day is the victory of the True Faith over heresy. "This is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith" (). Also, the icons of the saints bear witness that man, "created in the image and likeness of God" (), may become holy and godlike through the purification of himself as God's living image.

A monograph by Arousyak T'amrazyan is devoted to this commentary. Gregory later wrote hymns, panegyrics on various holy figures, homilies, numerous chants and prayers that are still sung today in Armenian churches. Many of the festal odes and litanies as well as the panegyrics (ներբողք) have been translated and annotated by Abraham Terian. While there is a long tradition of panegyrics and encomia in classical Armenian literature that closely adhere to the Greek rhetorical conventions of this genre, scholars have noted that Narekatsi often departs from the standards of this tradition and innovates in interesting and distinctive ways.

The Commission for examination of ecclesiastical laws, as required by Act of Parliament, was issued on 12 February.Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward VI, IV: 1550–1553 (HMSO 1926), p. 354. At this time Cheke, who had the books and papers of Martin Bucer, was attempting to build up the royal Library, and at the death of his friend and admirerSee Leland's appreciation of Cheke in his Encomia Illustrium Virorum, in T. Hearne (ed.), Joannis Lelandi Antiquarii De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea (Editio altera) 6 vols. (Gul et Jo. Richardson, London 1770), V, p. 148. John Leland the antiquary in April 1552 acquired his materials for the same purpose.

The twelve eclogues of The Shepheardes Calender, dealing with such themes as the abuses of the church, Colin's shattered love for Rosalind, praise for Queen Elizabeth, and encomia to the rustic Shepherd's life, are titled for the months of the year. Each eclogue is preceded by a woodcut and followed by a motto describing the speaker. The opening line of each eclogue expresses characteristics of the month, and the poem as a whole charts common accuracy of the seasons, the toil and celebrations of the village year. The precision of the description of birds, flowers, and harvests is balanced by an underlying theme of the hardships and rituals that each season entails.

Returning to Cambridge after the war, Guthrie was much in demand in his capacity as Orator, called upon to deliver Latin encomia in honour of such dignitaries as Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Jan Smuts, Nehru, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Viscount Slim and General Montgomery. In 1946 he was promoted to reader before becoming the third Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy in 1952, the year in which he became a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1950 he edited an edition of his mentor Cornford's essays under the title The Unwritten Philosophy. In 1957 he moved to his third Cambridge college when invited to become the master of Downing College, where he would remain for the rest of his life.

The drudgery of a lawyer's office was uncongenial to the ardently poetical Jókai. Encouraged by the encomia pronounced by the Hungarian Academy on his first play, Zsidó fiú (The Jewish Boy), he moved to Pest in 1845 with a manuscript novel in his pocket. There, he was introduced by Petőfi to the literary society of the Hungarian capital, and the same year his first notable novel Hétköznapok (Working Days), appeared, first in the columns of the ', and subsequently, in 1846, in book form. Hétköznapok was instantly recognized by all the leading critics as a work of original genius, and in the following year Jókai was appointed the editor of Életképek, then the leading Hungarian literary journal, and gathered round himself a circle of young Hungarian writers.

Diagoras was the son of Telecleides or Teleclytus, and was born in the island of Melos, one of the Cyclades. According to the Suda, Suda, Diagoras, delta,523 he was a disciple of Democritus after Democritus had paid 10,000 drachmas to free Diagoras from captivity following the cruel subjugation of Melos (416 BC);Sudas, 68 A 10a however no early sources mention an association with Democritus. The Suda also states that in his youth Diagoras had acquired some reputation as a lyric poet, and this is probably the cause of his being mentioned with the lyric poets Simonides, Pindar, and Bacchylides. Among his encomia is mentioned in particular a eulogy on Arianthes of Argos, who is otherwise unknown, another on Nicodorus, a statesman of Mantineia, and a third upon the Mantineians.

Most of Bernardi's works were published in his lifetime, primarily in Venice by Giacomo Vincenti, and later by Alessandro Vincenti who also published a posthumous collection of Bernardi's Messe a otto voci (Masses for eight voices) in 1638. Two collections of his works were published in Rome: Motecta (motets) for two to five voices in 1610, four of which were also anthologized by Georg Victorinus in his Siren coelestis published in Munich in 1616,Fisher (2008) and a collection of madrigals for three voices in 1611 which also contains a six- part "peasants' masquerade". The music has been lost for two of the works he composed in Salzburg, the Te Deum and a dramatic work (title unknown). However Encomia sacra for two to six voices which he wrote in Salzburg was published there by Gregor Kyrner in 1634.

U.S. Post Office, 1978 Holmes was widely admired during his last years, and on his ninetieth birthday was honored on one of the first coast-to-coast radio broadcasts, during which the Chief Justice, the Dean of Yale Law School, and the president of the American Bar Association read encomia; the Bar Association presented him with a gold medal. Holmes served on the court until January 12, 1932, when his brethren on the court, citing his advanced age, suggested that the time had come for him to step down. By that time, at 90 years of age, he was the oldest justice to serve in the court's history. On his ninety-second birthday, newly inaugurated President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor called on Holmes at his house in Washington. Holmes died of pneumonia in Washington, D.C. in 1935, two days short of his 94th birthday.

The Wen Xuan contains 761 works organized into 37 separate categories: Rhapsodies (fu 賦), Lyric Poetry (shī 詩), Chu-style Elegies (sāo 騷), Sevens (qī 七), Edicts (zhào 詔), Patents of Enfeoffment (cè 册), Commands (lìng 令), Instructions (jiào 教), Examination Prompts (cèwén 策文), Memorials (biǎo 表), Letters of Submission (shàngshū 上書), Communications (qǐ 啓), Memorials of Impeachment (tánshì 彈事), Memoranda (jiān 牋), Notes of Presentation (zòujì 奏記), Letters (shū 書), Proclamations of War (xí 檄), Responses to Questions (duìwèn 對問), Hypothetical Discourses (shè lùn 設論), Mixed song/rhapsody (cí 辭), Prefaces (xù 序), Praise Poems (sòng 頌), Encomia for Famous Men (zàn 贊), Prophetic Signs (fú mìng 符命), Historical Treatises (shǐ lùn 史論), Historical Evaluations and Judgments (shǐ shù zàn 史述贊), Treatises (lùn 論), "Linked Pearls" (liánzhū 連珠), Admonitions (zhēn 箴), Inscriptions (míng 銘), Dirges (lěi 誄), Laments (aī 哀), Epitaphs (béi 碑), Grave Memoirs (mùzhì 墓誌), Conduct Descriptions (xíngzhuàng 行狀), Condolences (diàowén 弔文), and Offerings (jì 祭).Knechtges (1982): 21-22; some translations given as updated in Knechtges (1995): 42. The first group of categories - the "Rhapsodies" (fu) and "Lyric Poetry" (shi), and to a lesser extent the "Chu- style Elegies" and "Sevens" - are the largest and most important of the Wen Xuan.Knechtges (1982): 28.