For these funereal apotheoses, these encomiastic requiems, having all the attraction of the abyss for weak minds and ambitious vanities, many of these yielding to this attraction have thought that fatality was the half of genius; many have dreamt of the hospital bed on which Gilbert died, hoping that they would become poets, as he did a quarter of an hour before dying, and believing that it was an obligatory stage in order to arrive at glory.
"Bohemians of the Latin Quarter"
Henry Murger
On my word, Eliezer did his business in an orderly and sensible manner; but what there is to call forth this hyper-encomiastic-'who only'-I cannot see.
"Literary Remains, Vol. 2"
Coleridge
No, it must be a more quaint and collateral device, as-stay: to frame some encomiastic speech upon this our metropolis, or the wise magistrates thereof, in which politic number, 'tis odds but his father fill'd up a room?
"Cynthia's Revels"
Ben Jonson