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

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.

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

What seems so is ——; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin