elysiums

“_Residents_ of Monaco and Monte Carlo are not supposed to be admitted, as it is not desirable that the half-frenzied losers should remain in these peaceful elysiums; a fresh and continuous stream of victims is much preferred.”

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta

“Proposals for new political institutions are sufficiently wearisome; but proposals for earthly elysiums, which are to embrace the whole circle of human affairs, become insupportably dull.”

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844

“To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their elysiums.”

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I

“His workrooms, as I have said, were no elysiums; but still, as good, alas! as those of three tailors out of four.”

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography

“At times their lids opened like the portals of celestial dwellings; they invited you into elysiums of light, of azure, of ineffable felicity; they promised you the realisation, tenfold, a hundredfold, of all your dreams of happiness, as though they had divined your soul's most secret thoughts; again, impenetrable as sevenfold plated shields of the hardest metals, they flung back your gaze like blunted and broken arrows.”

King Candaules