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Updated: May 17, 2025
While the city of the Medici is receding from its crumbling walls, like the human form shrinking into "the lean and slipper'd pantaloon," the Queen of the Adriatic sleeping on her muddy isles, and Rome itself is only to be traced by fallen temples and buried columns, the youthful vigor of America is fast covering the wilds of the West with the happiest fruits of human industry.
"Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
He will become the husband, "full of strange oaths jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel," and grow "into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon." How will he wear?
Jinks, no longer clad in elegant and martial costume, redolent equally of the ball-room and the battle-field no longer moving majestically onward with wide-stretched legs, against which his warlike sword made dreadful music no longer decorated with rosettes, and ruffles, and embroidery; but seated on the counter, in an old dressing-gown, with slipper'd feet and lacklustre eyes, driving his rapid needle through the cloth with savage and intrepid spirit.
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