| Because we come to like being praised and to hate being dispraised, praise and dispraise come to have an important secondary function. |
| Johnson, who, as we have before remarked, rarely praised or dispraised things by halves, broke forth in a warm eulogy. |
| But when he faced the work of a great living artist, Whistler, he dispraised it in such foul and objurgatory language that he was sued for libel and found guilty by the jury. |
