His work On Justinian's Buildings, was composed at the emperor's behest, and is panegyrical in tone. |
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. |
We have studiously avoided portraying fashionable life according to the vulgar notions, whether depreciatory or panegyrical. |
Gone indeed was artists' panegyrical imagery of the Revolution and Empire. |
It is rather satirical than panegyrical in character, and its poetical worth is very far from high. |