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elysian

[ih-lizh-uhn, ih-lee-zhuhn] / ɪˈlɪʒ ən, ɪˈli ʒən /


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But Phillips’s songs—ethereal, elysian, toothsome—have inspired plenty of scholars and fans to go scouting for more information, beginning with the musical apparatus that might have been responsible for that celestial chiming.

From The New Yorker Oct. 20, 2016

Now 2 & 3 Part Inventions, a work of elysian balance and serenity, is performed at N.Y.C.B.

From Time Magazine Archive

In chambers of gold elysian, The cymbals clash and clang, But the days are gone like a vision When the people wrought and sang.

From Alcyone by Lampman, Archibald

The sun, however, did relieve the monotony, and created in the death-chilled world skies filled with elysian flowers and mirages of beauty undreamed of by Aladdin.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.

Life seemed an elysian dream, from which care and sorrow must be for ever banished.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee




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