359 examples of enamour in sentences

Anyhow, the so-called heliotrope was the subject of constant symbolic allusion: "The flower, enamoured of the sun, At his departure hangs her head and weeps, And shrouds her sweetness up, and keeps Sad vigils, like a cloistered nun, Till his reviving ray appears, Waking her beauty as he dries her tears.

From its beauty and size it obtained a figurative meaning; and the arbutus or strawberry-tree (Arbutus unedo) is the symbol of inseparable love, and the narcissus denotes self-love, from the story of Narcissus, who, enamoured of his own beauty, became spell-bound to the spot, where he pined to death.

Leif became enamoured of a certain woman, whose name was Thorgunna.

She spoke, And as she turned, her round and rosy neck, Her flowing train, and long ambrosial hair, Breathing rich odours, I enamoured view.

If only the soul of man, infinite in its capacity, could be enamoured of God, it would at once work miracles and attain to Deity. XXIII.

" Jemshíd had before heard of the character and renown of this extraordinary damsel, yet he was not disposed to comply with her entreaty; but contemplating again her lovely face, his heart became enamoured, when she took him by the hand and led him along the beautiful walks.

" The damsel had become greatly enamoured of the person of the stranger before she knew who he was, and now being told by her nurse that he was Jemshíd himself, her affection was augmented twofold.

The shadows of evening were falling as he approached, and the enamoured princess thus addressed him from her balcony: "May happiness attend thee ever, thou, Whose lucid features make this gloomy night Clear as the day; whose perfume scents the breeze;

Her enamoured heart Suffused her cheek with blushes, every glance Increased the ardent transports of her soul.

Gardens and domes, bazaars begem the woods; Seraglios, haremspeopled solitudes, Where the veil'd idol kneels; and vistas, through Barr'd lattices, that give the enamoured view, Flowers, orange-trees, and waters sparkling near, And black and lovely eyes,Alas, that Fear, At those heaven-gates, dark sentinel should stand, To scare even Fancy from her promised land!

Boys were simply enamoured of him, for, by that instinct which never fails the young, he won their heartfelt devotion by his quick discernment of the weaknesses and proclivities of all the young with whom he ever came in contact.

Did I not forsake many young gallant courtiers, Enamoured with thy aged gravity, Who, now being weary of me, wouldst disgrace me? CAS.

The story of Alexander's bestowing Campaspe, in the enamoured Apelles, is related by Pliny in his Natural History.

An essential clown, brother to Sordido, yet so enamoured of the name of a gentleman, that he will have it though he buys it.

He is one that hath that unnatural disease to be enamoured of old age and wrinkles, and loves all things (as Dutchmen do cheese), the better for being mouldy and worm-eaten.

fingere Talem pulchritudinem qualem virtus habet;" "no painter, no graver, no carver can express virtue's lustre, or those admirable rays that come from it, those enchanting rays that enamour posterity, those everlasting rays that continue to the world's end."

Although for the greater part this beauty be most eminent in the face, yet many times those other members yield a most pleasing grace, and are alone sufficient to enamour.

All other creatures are fair, I confess, and many other objects do much enamour us, a fair house, a fair horse, a comely person.

He sets out his son and his church in that epithalamium or mystical song of Solomon, to enamour us the more, comparing his head "to fine gold, his locks curled and black as a raven," Cant.

We find in Cato innumerable beauties, which enamour us of its author, but we see nothing that acquaints us with human sentiments, or human actions; we place it with the fairest and the noblest progeny which judgment propagates by conjunction with learning; but Othello is the vigorous and vivacious offspring of observation, impregnated by genius.

" But Beatrice said, "Why dost thou so enamour thee of this face, and lose the sight of the beautiful guide, blossoming beneath the beams of Christ?

If without use they shine, yet still the glow May thine own eyes enamour.

We find in Cato innumerable beauties, which enamour us of its author, but we see nothing that acquaints us with human sentiments or human actions; we place it with the fairest and the noblest progeny which judgment propagates by conjunction with learning; but Othello is the vigorous and vivacious offspring of observation impregnated by genius.

Next her, Laura lies In Petrarch's learned arms, drying those eyes That did in such sweet smooth-paced numbers flow, As made the world enamoured of his woe.

I thank these kinsmen of the shelf; Their countenances bland Enamour in prospective, And satisfy, obtained.

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