His work On Justinian's Buildings, was composed at the emperor's behest, and is panegyrical in tone. |
But in these panegyrical orations, they oftimes rather exceed than excel. |
A fuller report of the above speech is given at f. 108, some panegyrical verses at ff. |
Let us, saith he, celebrate this feast, not in a panegyrical but divine, not in a worldly but supersecular manner. |
Any panegyrical reference to this feat is worth it, even assuming that Kumble is not the first but the second Indian to reach this milestone. |
He is perhaps weakest, like all poets with the signal exception of Dryden, when he is panegyrical. |