Elysian Fields

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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.

The rest of the enclosure is planted with trees and flowers, as if they would make the elysian fields of the poets, in which their souls may repose in delight.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

The happy hunting grounds are merely a repetition of his present life, only in those blissful elysian fields a Good Spirit wills that game shall always be in abundance, and hunting facilities inexhaustible.

From Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography by Johnson, Clark, M.D.

I felt borne along by a mighty torrent which was sweeping me from elysian fields into some fathomless abyss.

From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Oliphant, Laurence

There, in those bright elysian fields,   Bloom flow'rs that never fade; And seraphs tune their golden harps,   In spotless robes arrayed.

From Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Hanna, Abigail Stanley