Exhibition of the Laughing Gas (ca. 1840).
Source: Wellcome Collection
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6d954444-75e6-4201-b61b-6d124f59eddc
Exhibition of the Laughing Gas (ca. 1840).
Source: Wellcome Collection
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6d954444-75e6-4201-b61b-6d124f59eddc
"Prelude to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/prelude
For guitar, cello, harp, ney flute, double bass, and... Orson Welles.
from the album Unknow
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet and critic
Comment (1830-10-05), “Table Talk”
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This Is Not the Laughing, but the Hippocrene or Poetic Gas (1829) by Robert Seymour.
Source: Wellcome Collection
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So we did ‘The Rime Of Ancient Mariner’ at high school. Like went through it verse by verse and discussed it all. I’d say I loved it.
I think the Maiden version is brilliant … except it totally drops out for a massive quiet section which is very awesome/boring.
I love it… but do I love it?