Sir John observed, that I was rather too young to be a Praiser of past times, yet he allowed that the standard of conversation was not so high as it had been in the time of my father, by whose reports my youthful ardor had been inflamed.
"Coelebs In Search of a Wife"
Hannah More
She possessed ambition, but she sold herself to praise without regard for the Praiser.
"The Goose Man"
Jacob Wassermann