To dazzle, as well as to warm and vivify.
Not long ago, there came among us one whom nature had richly endowed.

His mind possessed exceeding brilliancy.

Flashes of thought, like lightning from summer cloud, were ever filling the air around him.

There was a stateliness in the movement of his intellect, and an evidence of power, that oppressed you at times with wonder.
Around him gathered the lesser lights in the hemisphere of thought, and veiled their feeble rays beneath his excessive brightness.

He seemed conscious of his superior gifts and displayed them more like a giant beating the air to excite wonder, than putting forth his strength to accomplish a good and noble work.