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...Significance. Here is an Elysian Held of fantasy out of which one will flush any number of gorgeous poetical pheasants, sly ironical foxes, and profoundly philosophical serpents. Shakespeare's Tempest is the most convenient comparison for beauty of writing. Feminism, immaculate conceptions and modern democracies are the chief butts of satire. Such a book has not been written since La Revolte des Anges...
...meadow will no longer be surmounted by pork-and-beans; canned-milk cows will cease to graze the unfertile slopes of New England. Perhaps, under a more rigorous law the defacers of highways may be forced to renounce entirely their motto, "He who rides must read", and in some Elysian future flamboyant advertising will no longer stun the senses of the motorist, country bent...
...American college student, regaled with novels like Daudet's Sappho and nourished upon choice anecdotes of the Montmartre, has long been accustomed to look to Paris as the Elysian Fields of the genus Student. But the days of cheap beer and gay grisettes exist only in the imagination. The present lot of the Parisian student is indeed, a sorry...
...dead in an under world, and beyond Oceanus. The Erinnyes were mentioned as the punishers of perjurers after death. We find also accounts of the sufferings of the Titans for evil done during their lives. Then we read on the other hand of the beauty and glory of the Elysian plain, where the sons of the gods meet. Scepticism was frequent and widespread in the third and fourth centuries...
Again we find the nine proposing a New York trip during the "May recess," which is to include matches with the Bedford "Atlantics," the Brooklyn "Excelsiors," the New York "Mutuals." and the Hartford "Charter Oaks." Where are these nines to-day? And where are the "Elysian Fields they once played...