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

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.

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

Her soul was already up there, and its elysian paths knew the lightness of her feet.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore