"Paradisiacal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... most exquisite feeling of which the human soul is susceptible: when it pervades us, we feel happy; and could it last unmixed, we might form some conjecture of the bliss of those paradisiacal days, when the obedient passions were under the dominion of reason, and the impulses of the ...
— Mary - A Fiction • Mary Wollstonecraft
... conditions of so much latitude. "Manfred" and "Alastor" are fables not further removed from real life than is Lelia. The personages are like allegorical figures, emblematic of spiritual qualities on a grand scale, the scenes like the paradisiacal gardens that visited the fancy of Aurore Dupin when a child. There is no action. The interest is not in the characters and what they do, but in what they say. The declamatory style, then so popular, is one the taste ...
— Famous Women: George Sand • Bertha Thomas
... illusions concerning France had been born again. She was convinced that Paris could not fail to be paradisiacal. ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett |
