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
To this wild mountain region came Florence Howard, after luxuriating on the picturesque Hudson, and dreaming herself in elysian realms among the "thousand isles" of the queenly St. Lawrence.
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton
Soft and elysian in its beauty was all around.
From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
In the history of a passion, it is doubtful if any mood is more elysian than that which accompanies the waking moments on the morning after the great discovery.
From The Mayor of Warwick by Herbert M. (Herbert Müller) Hopkins
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