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

O, it interrupts your vision With its long, unceasing howl; It dispels your dreams elysian With insistence fresh and foul!

From Oklahoma Sunshine by Miller, Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin)

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)

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.