His work On Justinian's Buildings, was composed at the emperor's behest, and is panegyrical in tone. |
Demonstrative or panegyrical oratory is associated with the past and urges an audience to honor and imitate a virtuous subject. |
He is perhaps weakest, like all poets with the signal exception of Dryden, when he is panegyrical. |
It is rather satirical than panegyrical in character, and its poetical worth is very far from high. |
Gone indeed was artists' panegyrical imagery of the Revolution and Empire. |
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. |