Charm, enchant, fascinate, captivate, enrapture, bewitch, infatuate, enamor.

Life will soon be o'er, And his great deeds enchant my soul no more!

Here was a creature quite imperfect in detail, yet destined to allure and enchant whomsoever she might meet.

It belongs exclusively to the nightingale primadonnas, whose voices enchant the ear if they do not always stir the blood.

Just so does the priest of Southern India, after having made his idol, enchant his god into it by due ceremonial.

V. practice sorcery &c n.; cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate &c (influence) 615; taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead.

He enriched it through that exquisite sense of music, (never approached but by Marlowe,) to which it seemed to be eagerly obedient, as if every word said to him, "Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear," as if every latent harmony revealed itself to him as the gold to Brahma, when he walked over the earth where it was hidden, crying, "Here am I, Lord!

encantar, to delight, enchant, charm.

This People have taken up from reading the many agreeable things which have been writ on that Subject, for which we are beholden to excellent Persons who delighted in being retired and abstracted from the Pleasures that enchant the Generality of the World.

"They would enchant and seduce us," sighed he, "and we shall be sold into perdition.

It is a religion of the imagination; all the arts of the imagination are pressed into its service; architecture, painting, sculpture, music, have lent all their charm to enchant the senses and impose on the understanding by substituting for the solemn truths of God's Word, which are addressed to the understanding, the fictions of poetry and the delusions of feeling.

On heaven's blue sea each isle of fire, Of all that now enchant the eye, Must finally in gloom expire; Though all may still roll on, unseen, As blackened cinders, while between Dark, lifeless planets intervene.

You cannot read now without amazement the books which used to enchant you as a child.

Here is a story which must enchant the conservative, while it inspires the reformer.

But, although this sweet climate, with its wealth of sunlight and balmy airs, may enchant the traveler for awhile and make him wish at times that his whole life might be spent amid such scenes, it exercises a most enervating influence on those who are born to its enjoyment.

We have from it one of our most popular songs, which constitutes one of its stanzas: "Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear, Or like a fairy, trip upon the green, Or like a nymph with long dishevell'd hair Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen.

Why should Marlowe enchant me?

Thy mother praised to me thy ready skill; She says a voice of melody dwells in thee, Which doth enchant the soul.

By considering them in historical sequence, we can understand not only the subject-matter of romantic Indian painting but realize why Krishna, the adored lover, should still enchant religious India.

His purity of heart, his kindness, his soundness of principle, his information, his knowledge, and the intense and eager feelings with which he pours forth all he knows, affect, interest, and enchant one" (Autobiog. i. 298, 384).

This People have taken up from reading the many agreeable things which have been writ on that Subject, for which we are beholden to excellent Persons who delighted in being retired and abstracted from the Pleasures that enchant the Generality of the World.

And now, my dear friend, where shall I sit down, that I may enchant my sight by gazing on the twining plants, which seem to remind me of the graceful shape of my beloved? MÁ[T.]HAVYA.

Why should Marlowe enchant me?

If, perchance, a rose you see, Say, I send her greeting! 2[40] Thy deep blue eyes enchant me, So lovingly they glow; My gazing soul grows dreamy, My words come strange and slow.

Thy deep blue eyes enchant me