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

“Beauteous lady,” he said, “how can I ever demonstrate the gratitude—the illimitable, boundless gratitude which fills my heart, for the joy, the truly elysian delight afforded me by this meeting?”

From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)

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

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore

Ball-going is elysian when one is very young and cheerful and active, but it is a pleasure which, for nine men out of ten, soon palls.

From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by Russell, George William Erskine