Famous quotes containing the words elysian fields, elysian, fields and/or performed:
“I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“For wheresoe’er I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,
Poetic fields encompass me around,
And still I seem to tread on classic ground.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)