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...respire, Fain would I waft such blessing upon thee, As, with a sigh, I deem thou mightst have been to me! All know the remainder of the story. An early decease on a foreign strand, while engaged in a wild enterprize, was the termination of his career. "Ada" was married, when in her twentieth year, to William, Lord King, created in 1838 Earl of Lovelace, by whom she leave...

...Respiration, he described the synthesis of the gas, its effect on animals and animal tissue and, in an unprecedented final section, the descriptions of the subjective effects of nitrous oxide intoxication on himself and two dozen further subjects, including Beddoes, Coleridge and Southey. Davy’s report combined two mutually unintelligible languages – organic chemistry...