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
In chambers of gold elysian, The cymbals clash and clang, But the days are gone like a vision When the people wrought and sang.
From Alcyone by Lampman, Archibald
He was walking in some elysian realm which had nothing to do with the tawdry evidence of life about him.
From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore
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
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