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

Such were the business-like plans which usurped the place of those mutual adulatory confidences presumed to occupy the first elysian hours of an engagement.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various

According to P�p, the most remote antiquity, and also the elysian state of man, was always that joyous time "when the animals had speech."

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances

In its place bright mansions, elysian groves, await the soul at death.

From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)