elysian
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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
It was that of a man six feet high, and broad in proportion, whose majestic and spacious brow betokened realms of elysian thought and excrescent ideality.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
Eluding yet love's sweet control, Yet raining dreams elysian?
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
“Beauteous lady,” he said, “how can I ever demonstrate the gratitude—the illimitable, boundless gratitude which fills my heart, for the joy, the truly elysian delight afforded me by this meeting?”
From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds
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