Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow; then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
jealous in bonor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then, the justice,
In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything!
— Shakespeare.
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The speaker of this piece had dreams of "foreign influence."
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IKIARCO BOZZARIS.
At midnight, in his guarded tent,
The Turk was dreaming of the hour
When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,
Should tremble at his power:
In dreams, through camp and court he bore
The trophies of a conqueror.
In dreams his song of triumph heard;
Then wore his monarch's signet ring,
Then pressed that monarch's throne — a king;
As wild his thoughts and gay of wing
As Eden's garden bird. — F. G. Halleck.
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The speaker of this piece was not reconciled to book-keeping.
DEBT AND CREDIT.
I dislike the whole matter of debt and credit — from my heart I dislike it; and think the man who first invented a ledger should be hung in effigy with his invention tied to his feet, that his neck might support him and his works together. My reason for thus sweeping at the whole system is not that I believe it totally useless, but that I believe it does more mischief than good, produces more trouble than accommodation, and destroys more fortunes than it creates honestly. These opinions are not of a recent date with me they
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