A Soul that from Elysium made escape, [As she comes towards him, he goes back in great amaze.

Mahomet imagined an Elysium, but Kent created many."

"Go to Elysium," suggested Prometheus.

to Elysium!" exclaimed the other gods, and all rose tumultuously, saving two.

"I go not," said Eros, "for where Love is, there is Elysium.

"Neither go I," said an old blind god, "for where Plutus is, Elysium is not.

A postern door in the walls opened on an ornamental wooden bridge across the weir-heada favourite haunt of all fishers and sketchers who were admitted to the dragon-guarded Elysium of Whitford Priors.

My dear readers, would you have me, even if I could, extricate him from such an Elysium by any denouement whatsoever?

According to the most approved recipes, something about the heathen gods and goddesses; and the schoolboy topics of Styx and Cerberus, and Elysium; are occasionally thrown in, and the composition is complete.

In due course, Laureate Jonson shared the fate of all potentates, and was gathered to the laurelled of Elysium.

He deals too much with shadowy and incomprehensible beings, and is too constantly rapt into an extramundane Elysium, to command a lasting interest with ordinary mortalsand must employ the agency of more varied and coarser emotions, if he wishes to take rank with the seducing poets of this or of former generations.

At length, escaping from the dust and din of the French Elysium, I halted to enjoy the distant view of the city of Paris, from the gate of the barrier.

The fields of Elysium, that sweet region of poesy, are adorned with all that imagination can conceive to be delightful.

We lay opposite the Doria palace, and the constellation of villas and towers still glittered along the hills; but who, with his teeth chattering and limbs numb and damp, could feel pleasure in looking on Elysium itself?

I wonder not that the French, with their exuberant gaiety of spirit, should revel in its ceaseless tides of pleasure, as if it were an earthly Elysium.

Every one seemed in high spirits, as if the new world they were about to touch contained for them a certainty of Elysium.

to whom I breath'd in youth the most impassion'd words, And felt as if Elysium had disclosed Its glory to my eyearound this brow, Stainless as marble, cluster golden curls Like sunbeams on the bosom of the cloud, And o'er the radiant azure orbs beneath, The snowy lids suspend their glossy fringe.

We were thus thrown more together than usual,a circumstance which made our life more monotonous to the others, as I could see; but to myself, who could at last talk to Eunice, and who was happy at the very sight of her, this 'heated term' seemed borrowed from Elysium.

I saw Elysium and the milky way Fair-opening to the shades beneath her breast; In Venus' lap the struggling wanton lay,

The next instance we shall produce, in which, as in the former, Mr. Pitt has greatly exceeded Dryden, is taken from Virgil's description of Elysium, which says Dr. Trap is so charming, that it is almost Elysium to read it.

The next instance we shall produce, in which, as in the former, Mr. Pitt has greatly exceeded Dryden, is taken from Virgil's description of Elysium, which says Dr. Trap is so charming, that it is almost Elysium to read it.

Each of the superior Hindú gods has a heaven, paradise, or elysium of his own.

He has a track in space to which he is bound; we recognize the necessity that he should proceed thereon; but he can diverge at pleasure through all time, bear us off into what age he pleases, make us utterly oblivious of the present, and lap us in the Elysium of a good story.

ELYSIUM the abode of the shades of the virtuous dead in the nether world as conceived of by the poets of Greece and Rome, where the inhabitants live a life of passive blessedness, which, however, is to such a man as Achilles a place of woe rather and unrest, where he would fain exchange places with the meanest hind that breathes in the upper world.

His quartette describes a day in one of those Attic souls who prefigure on earth the serenity of Elysium.