Elysian

We, during our abode in the world, from the inductions of reason, believed the immortality of the souls of men; and we also assigned regions for the blessed, which we call the elysian fields; and we believed that the soul was a human image or appearance, but of a fine and delicate nature, because spiritual. " ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)

Fischbeck: we will keep trying to have everything we do make sense … there is the impulse to do many different, unrelated things and then sort out how they are connected later …! we have plans to open a very abstract "museum" in the park near our house in los angeles called the elysian park museum of art, and we will be doing a number of gallery-type art shows that will hopefully provide more of that oscillation between tidy and coherent on the one hand, and completely ambitious and nonsense activity on the other! also we have just started a record label that will have no money involved called ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's almost as if the building's interior designers purposely aimed for a William Blake-style "heaven and hell" motif, with the dark and spare street-level lobby representing the heretical netherworld and the lofty heights of the 10th floor symbolizing the kind of elysian hereafter that awaits only the most noble servants of the mega-media ethos. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And how I wonder, with the sun streaming in illuminating his face, and him getting a bit fidgety to get on with his day's filming in the elysian valley outside, does he guard against messiah complex himself? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Joining his club, with its elysian grounds and pretty yoga teachers, was like sipping from an energy drink of Roaring Twenties fizz. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So if you have an audience-controlled "nonsense" meter, and whoever is speaking can see just how much fidelity they have with TFQ* maybe they would be less inclined to wander off into the elysian fields of their talking points. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Many critics refer to the movies of the 1930s and 1940s as part of an elysian period of well-written works. ❋ JoAnn Anderson (2008)

'Twas for a politic end, and to this purpose the old [6398] poets feigned those elysian fields, their Aeacus, Minos, and ❋ Unknown (2007)

Those that had done well, went to the elysian fields, but evil doers to Cocytus, and to that burning lake of [6399] hell with fire, and brimstone for ever to be tormented. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What boundless leisure! what original jurisdiction! the old constellations have set, new and brighter have arisen; an elysian light tinges all objects. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Her soul was already up there, and its elysian paths knew the lightness of her feet. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Rather than being a typically cursed place, a wounded land that the hero must heal, it is rather an elysian venue where magic is draining away. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Those elysian Sunday afternoons on the edg of sunlit village pitches never seemed to have much to do with cricket. ❋ Wheeler, Sarah (1996)

They transpired in those elysian days before Marx Marvelous turned up to manage the zoo, before the Corpse appeared and really knocked things on their ears. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1971)

If it woke one regretful sigh and drew one wandering look downward to the elysian paradise that lay smiling at the foot of the mountain, he instantly suppressed the feeling, and set his face in its old deathly stillness. ❋ Various (N/A)

It has laws to be obeyed, regulations to be observed, principles to be submitted to, without which it has no joys, no elysian fields of bliss and blessedness, no buds and flowers of virtue and happiness. ❋ George Sumner Weaver (N/A)

To be sure, she had formerly considered this very tendency an elysian feature of such nights; but that was when she thought that love always was right for its own sake, that true lovers never should be thwarted. ❋ Dana Gatlin (N/A)

If the parents could see with the vision of boys and if boys used the eyes of their sires, then fun would be labor, with rapture elysian, and toil would be play, to the music of lyres! ❋ Walt Mason (N/A)

Mr. Mason, in his English Garden, thus panegyrises his elysian scenes: -- ❋ Samuel Felton (N/A)

The happy hunting grounds are merely a repetition of his present life, only in those blissful elysian fields a ❋ Edwin Eastman (N/A)