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

His and my eyes overflowed with holy gladness from a singularly elysian mood of harmony in anticipation of the coming day.

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

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)

Life seemed an elysian dream, from which care and sorrow must be for ever banished.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee