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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

nobilior: Ambrose, then Bishop of Milan, later Saint, preventing the Roman emperor Theodosius I from entering the Cathedral at Milan. By van Dyck. Sir Anthony van Dyck — Saint Ambrose and Emperor Theodosius

nobilior:

Ambrose, then Bishop of Milan, later Saint, preventing the Roman emperor Theodosius I from entering the Cathedral at Milan.

By van Dyck.

Sir Anthony van Dyck — Saint Ambrose and Emperor Theodosius

my-ear-trumpet:

Frank Crumit — Sunny Disposish (1927)

daffodilsinjune:

A sunny disposish will always see you through
When up above the skies are black, ’stead of being blue
Mr. Trouble makes our faces grow long
But a smile will have him saying, so long

It really doesn’t pay to be a gloomy pill
It’s absolutely most ridic, positively sill
The rain may pitter patter
It really doesn’t matter
For life can be delish
With a sunny disposish

stellar-raven: Lucrezia Bori (c. 1918-1928) [x] [The source site lists her name is Inorezia Bori, but I (with the help of a friend) am pretty certain this is actually Lucrezia.]

stellar-raven:

Lucrezia Bori (c. 1918-1928) [x]

[The source site lists her name is Inorezia Bori, but I (with the help of a friend) am pretty certain this is actually Lucrezia.]

blastedheath: renaissancevenice Giovanni Bellini (active about 1459; died 1516), Doge Leonardo Loredan, c.1501-2. Oil on poplar, 61.6 x 45.1 cm. The National Gallery, London.

blastedheath:

renaissancevenice

Giovanni Bellini (active about 1459; died 1516), Doge Leonardo Loredan, c.1501-2. Oil on poplar, 61.6 x 45.1 cm. The National Gallery, London.

atompunk: my-ear-trumpet: Edmund Wilson’s All-purpose Rejection Letter (via BoingBoing)

atompunk:

my-ear-trumpet:

Edmund Wilson’s All-purpose Rejection Letter

(via BoingBoing)

f-ckingmagnets-howdotheywork: my-ear-trumpet: ‘Het ABC voor Holland’s Kleintjes met 156 Plaatjes’ by Daan Hoeksema, 1923 (via Bibliodyssey)

f-ckingmagnets-howdotheywork:

my-ear-trumpet:

‘Het ABC voor Holland’s Kleintjes met 156 Plaatjes’
by Daan Hoeksema, 1923

(via Bibliodyssey)

Unknown Victorian lady (via bygoneyears)
Unknown Victorian lady

(via bygoneyears)

my-ear-trumpet: runawayrose: Miss Dorothy Monkman (Edwardian actress).(via bygoneyears)

my-ear-trumpet:

runawayrose:

Miss Dorothy Monkman (Edwardian actress).

(via bygoneyears)

omgitscandace:

my current favorite song
Sicut Cervus by Palestrina

“Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus.
(As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.)”
— Psalm 42:1

(Source: cowboycandace)