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

Behind me, far away toward the rising sun, was the little island of San Salvador, where the New World, in all its elysian beauty, its virgin loveliness, burst upon his view.

From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Norman, B. M.

Here European civilization, and European depotism first planted its foot in the elysian fields of the west.

From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Norman, B. M.

In the history of a passion, it is doubtful if any mood is more elysian than that which accompanies the waking moments on the morning after the great discovery.

From The Mayor of Warwick by Hopkins, Herbert M. (Herbert Müller)