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

Why did I learn, waked from that dream elysian, A sister's love was all I shared with thee!

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

I felt borne along by a mighty torrent which was sweeping me from elysian fields into some fathomless abyss.

From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Oliphant, Laurence

She is a land of violent contrasts; level plain and broken sierra, elysian garden of Andalusia and tractless wastes of Castile, frosty Burgos and sunny Seville.

From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle