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

According to P�p, the most remote antiquity, and also the elysian state of man, was always that joyous time "when the animals had speech."

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances

His and my eyes overflowed with holy gladness from a singularly elysian mood of harmony in anticipation of the coming day.

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

It was that of a man six feet high, and broad in proportion, whose majestic and spacious brow betokened realms of elysian thought and excrescent ideality.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)