Careful Words

charmed (adj.)

I bear a charmed life.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 8.

We 're charm'd with distant views of happiness,

But near approaches make the prospect less.

Yalden: Against Enjoyment.

Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name.

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): Virgil, Georgics. Book ii. Line 72.