Crossword-Solution: OVERPRAISE 10 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Another says, ‘It’s one of the best American novels which has appeared for years.’ (I know better than that), and the next asserts that ‘Though it is original, and written with great force and feeling, it is a dangerous book.’ ’Tisn’t! Some make fun of it, some overpraise, and nearly all insist that I had a deep theory to expound, when I only wrote it for the pleasure and the money.

Nature never makes odd samples.’” “I cannot help thinking,” said the Philosopher, “that a good deal of harm is being done to the race as a whole by the overpraise of women.” “Who overpraises them?” demanded the Girton Girl.

Who does? My dear Charmian, who wrote the successful novel of last year, do you not already repent your rash act? If you do not write a better novel this year, will not the public flout you and jeer you for a pretender? Did the public overpraise you at first? Its mistaken partiality becomes now your presumption.

Here, boy, light the candles and bring two sodas and brandies.” “Well, Bathurst,” he went on, when they had made themselves comfortable in two lounging chairs, “what do you thing of Miss Hannay?” “I was prepared to admire her, Doctor, from what you said; it is not very often that you overpraise things; but she is a charming girl, very pretty and bright, frank and natural.” “She is all that,” the Doctor said.

XIV.--SIMONIDES PRESERVED BY THE GODS.[17] Three sorts there are, as Malherbe[18] says, Which one can never overpraise-- The gods, the ladies, and the king; And I, for one, endorse the thing.