No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
But winter lingering chills the lap of May;
No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast.
But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. [ Goldsmith ]

True comeliness, which nothing can impair,
Dwells in the mind; all else is vanity and glare. [ Thomson ]

It was thus by the glare of false science betrayed,
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind. [ Beattie ]

The fall of waters and the song of birds.
And hills that echo to the distant herds.
Are luxuries excelling all the glare
The world can boast, and her chief favorites share. [ Cowper ]

Deeds of lowly virtue fade before the glare of lofty ostentation. [ Klopstock ]

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. [ Hare ]

There is so much of the glare and grief of life connected with the stage that it fills me with most solemn thoughts. [ Henry Giles ]

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections. [ Hume ]

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. [ Carlyle ]