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Elysian Fields. The Paradise or Happy Land of the Greek poets. Elysian (the adjective) means happy, delightful.
“Oʹer which were shadowy cast Elysian gleams.”
Thomson: Castle of Indolence, i. 44.
“Would take the prisoned soul,
And lap it in Elysium.”
Milton: Comus, 261–2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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