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elysian

[ih-lizh-uhn, ih-lee-zhuhn] / ɪˈlɪʒ ən, ɪˈli ʒən /


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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 B. M. Norman

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

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Be this our home in life; and, when years heap Their withered hours like leaves on our decay, Let us become the overhanging day, The living soul, of this elysian isle— Conscious, inseparable, one.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin




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