Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-02-23


" There might have been destiny; but no
Our hearts deny n ;-a;.d So young, so fair,
Good without effort great without lce
now there
How many tics did that Stern moment Tear,
From thy s'res, to his humblest lmenuI'sl breast
Is linked the electrical chain oribat despair,
Whose shock earthquake $, and Oppressed
The land which lovd thee so, that none could love
thee best"
CHILDE HAROLD, Canto ".
The fate Of Miss Johnson, as well as that
which has marked the history of Mrs. George
Barrett, more remotely Mrs. Drummond, and
still more remotely, Miss Jane Stockwell,
should admonish every young actress, to be
careful how she changes her name, or in
moment Of passion, sinks the Miss to assume
the Mistress. Miss Clura Fisher, young la
dy of estimable worth, and once the prodigy of
the age and nov desewcdly popular may for
number of yeas, maintain her popularity; but
the moment she sinks the name of Clara, and
commits her destinies to a husband, and pu.s on
the robes Of wife, she must nee cessarily sink
IN popular estimation, and fall 10 that depth of
insgnifcance, which she never anticipated,
and which she does not merit
Although we are the stern ard unbendino
advocates of matrimony, we would not advise
popular actress TO marry, if she wishes to
maintain her popularity for, she who has excit
ed the admiration Of our sex, whilst Miss.
may miss it most unfortunately, if she chang
es her name, becomes a welded wife. and
wears the quoif of the matron. All eyes are
at that moment placed upon !er, with look
of cold indifference; and he who worshippcd
at her shrine, when she was a virgin, starts
from her with cloudy aspect, when he be-
holds her, the chosen and the given one Of a
snblinary lord and master.
The same principle, rule. or argument, may
be applied 10 young cergymaR. At the on
set, early in his vocation, when his eyes, arc
professedly directed towards the Heavens
when he processes to be shut out from the
world, and to sit in the sanctuary sad and
alone, TO contemplate the goodness of the Al
mighty, all eyes are turned towards hn, and
the fair are enamourod OF his cloqucnce, and
that he takes to himself, some beloved and
wtchiIg Rebecca, some siIhing, langnishing,
and captivating blre eyed SGsln, the eyes Of
the world are cas-, aside ,qnd he sinks TO rise no
more; the doors OF prcferment are comparatively
closed against him; and the fair congre g alton
who once listened to his tender invoca ,ons at
the throne Of mercy and of grace, 10 longer !
linger with delight on the soii language ho ut
tets, out straying from his presence, con;em- |
plate the fashions of the day, and pay their |
alterations, at the shrine Of Mistress Cam
tello.
But 10 return from this DEPRESSION, which
has been imperceptily indulged in, We once
more visit the Theatre, Rosalnd, Haoran,
and Miss Hardy.
Tho third act was just completed, and the
drop scene lowered, when Rosalind, turned
her eye from tho stage, where il had been so
just her shawl, she discovered a gentleman
standing near her, who fimiliarly accos'ed her
with low bow, and offered her the courcsics
of the evening. To her, hs was an entire
stranger, but unwilling 10 be considered rude,
she politely, yet coldly returned his civifics;
and turning from him, the first opportunity she
had, whispered to Haloran, that gentleman.
behind her, had taken the liberty TO address
her, bat as sho had not The pleasure Of know
ing his name. and certainly had never before
seen hin, snc would consider herself infinste-
ly obligcd,i ,if he woald cnqnirc tho ime Of The