To all that pass away: But yet methought the living great Some higher sparks should animate, To dazzle and dismay: Nor deem'd Contempt could thus make mirth Of these, the Conquerors of the earth.
It was as though a new life had opened out before eyes which had all too long confronted the sober grey of mere existence, a life which had been hidden behind a dark curtain raised at last only to dazzleand amaze.
For a moment the officer in charge of them looked up, and his eyes were caught in the dazzle of the blinding light.
The birds sang and built and the May flies crept up through the snow and spun silver in the air for a brief dazzle of life.
Two days ago, for trying to dazzle him during lessons with a sun-glass, he gave a boy named Dawkins 500 lines.
Surely, no; else she had been the last to dazzle him with it.
Become ye as the birds who offer Him their thanks, and in the blossoming bowers of life chant ye such melodies as will dazzle the minds of those who know.
Thus it is my hope that once again some circumstance will make my cup of anguish to brim over, and that beauteous Love, that Slayer of souls, will dazzle the beholders again.
But in this age of splendours, this era of God, the pre-eminent Personage, the luminous Orb, the chosen Individual will shine out with such perfections and such power as ultimately to dazzle the minds of every community and group.
Such valuable impartiality was rare indeed among the contemporaries of the great Emperor, nor have we met with it in our own time among the servants of a sovereign far less likely to dazzle those who approached him.
If he would silence that importunate whisper, he would have to dazzle us by a series of surprising feats.
The countess was not able to dazzle him, but she roused in him the most lively sympathy.
She tried, however, at once to relate herself to him differently; she wished to dazzle him with her culture.
In order to dazzle the French court the Duke had arranged a remarkable suite to accompany the young Princess.
Like all the powerful princes of that day both Pope Clement and Duke Alessandro wished to dazzle the rest of the world with their magnificence, and Catherine must have been surprised at the sights she saw in Leghorn.
I am the one who rode beside you, blinking At a dazzle of golden lights.
Submarines have been known to make errors of eight degrees in delivering torpedoes atdazzle boats even at close range.
The dazzle system as applied on the Leviathan and other vessels under jurisdiction of the navy, has for its idea the disruption of outline and deception as to the true course a vessel is following.
It was then that our navy, which had been following experiments in camouflage, accepted the dazzle system for some of its transports, while retaining the leaden war-paint for other transports and for fighting craft.
The British system was known as the "dazzle system," and was opposed to the American idea of so painting a vessel as to cause it to merge into its background.
You are a man of the world and with enough of the surface polish--I don't say it stops with that--to dazzle any girl accustomed to such surroundings as we have here.
Nor only launch thy subtle dazzle and thy strength for these, Prepare the later afternoon of me myself--prepare my lengthening shadows, Prepare my starry nights.
Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.
The precipitate evacuation of Lithuania by the Russians seemed to dazzle his judgment; of this Europe will be the best judge; his bulletins repeated his words.
It was indispensable, therefore, to dazzle the world speedily by the éclat of a great victory, and hide so many sacrifices under a heap of laurels.
Prince Eugene, in order to dazzle the confederates with some bold enterprise, detached major-general Grovestein with fifteen hundred cavalry to penetrate into the heart of France.
Away below the camp the cañon was dense with shade, but far off up the valley one rod of blinding sunlight struck the most distant peak, and made its snows dazzle on the eye.
The lucent rosy whiteness of arms and shoulders seemed to dazzle him.
A full light which brought no dazzle with it came in from the windows opposite.
Without any grievance to his subjects, he can support the magnificence of a royal estate, and dazzle the imagination of his people, by that very wealth which themselves have bestowed.
When you had looked long enough to dazzle and weary your eyes, a cloud would come and fold you about with opaqueness, and while you waited in the cloud, lo here!
In one book the whole mysteries of the Hermetic philosophy are expounded, and the wonders of alchymy dazzle us in every page.
It is the sympathy we get from people, the heartsomeness and cheer that keep our souls nourished, rather than the mere dazzle of intellectual attainment, or the greatness of any worldly achievement.
This bright autumn weather is so crowded with sights and sounds to dazzle and enchant that to obtrude the leaf of rue within the garland or breathe a minor tone into the music seems almost out of place.
Such people walk through life as the mole walks through the glory of a summer day, or burrows beneath the dazzle of a winter storm.
The royal infant, at the age of five years, was crowned with his mother Irene; and the national consent was ratified by every circumstance of pomp and solemnity, that could dazzle the eyes or bind the conscience of the Greeks.
On the razzle-dazzle last night, I expect," said the waiter, with a wink at his fellow.
The splendid pageants, that dazzle the lesser children at a theatre, are but dirty daubs of paint and tinsel; and it is the same with the stage of the world.
