The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1837-09-12

1 And life no future but his love Tor me .y.. .
| Whom does he lovei Marancio's wife! He praisd
i Only her courage Queen Giovannas beauty
IT'S dust these many years There is no sign
| He loves another and report said ever
His glory was his mistress. Can he love
Shame the doubt Twas written in the ring.
| q He who loves most loves honor best'-and Sforza
| Is made too like god to lack heart.
! And so, breathe again! To make him love me
| Is all my life, now to pry through his nature,
And find his heart out That's wrap, in glory!
! I'll feed his glory, then He praised Giovanni
That she royal and magnificent
Ay--thais well thought on, too! How should an eye
Dazzed with and warlike pomp like Sforzas
Find pleasure in simplicity Yaa. il Ike % %..,
1 I'm dukes daughter, and III wear the look ont!
\ Unlock my Jewels and my costly robes,
And while keep his show struck eye upon me,
Watch for golden opportunity
| To build up his renown -.
The gentle world I've livep in! Farewell all
| My visions OF world for two hearts only
Storzas and mine II ! outlve this change,
| So brief and yet so violent within me,
1 Ill come back in my dreams, oh, childish world
/ Ii not-a broken heart bots out remembrance.
(Er into her bridal chandler phieh beyond OPEN
| ing the door.)
In the third act she appears magnfcently attired at
Court festival full of her ambition to attract the "show-
struck eye Of Sforza In the following passage Miss
Clifton will long be remembered:
| Bi Now since the serpent
Misied mother faik truth
| So subty turned TO error. IL the rose
Were born lily and, by force Of heart.
And eagerness for light, grew tall and fair,
| 'Twere true type OF the first fiery soul
| That makes low name honorable. They
Who take it by inheritance alone .
Adding no brightness to t-are like stars
| Seen in the ocean, that were never there,
| But for the bright originals in heaven!
S@p (Sneingiy) Rest to the gallant soul Of the first
| Storza.
BIZ Amen bu. triple glory to the second.
have brief tale for thine ear ambassador
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Ri. Mark the moral, sir!
An eagle once from the Euganean hills
SCARED bravey to the sky ITO sroRzAl ("il' please
List to my story y In his giddy track
Scarce marked By them who gane upon the first
| Followed new-0edsed eaglet fast and well.
Upward they sped, and all eyes on their fight
! Gazed with admrng awe, when, suddenly
| The parent biyd, struck by a thunderbot
Dropped lifeless through the air The eaglet paused
| And hung upon his wings and as his sire
FLASHED in the far down wave men looked to see him
| Flee to his nest afnghted!
| ST (Wih great interesf.) Did he sol
BIZ Ny noble lord he had monarch's heart
| He wheeled moment in mid air, and shook
Proudly his royal wings, and then right on,
With crest uplifted and unwaverng flight,
Sped to the suns eye, straight and gloriously.
Page. Lady-is that truei
| BIZ Ay-men call those eagles
| Sforza the First and Second!
II will be said that with the magnificent beauty Of the
actress this snowy passage could scarce fail Of an eff
fect-but there in it than her beauty 1t was
delivered with pride, with majesty, with dscrimlna-
ton Of emphasis, which will get out Of the
of those who have heard it. She rose by another noble
STEP in the appreciation of the character, and when
medaely after her fathers death is announced the thrill
with which the audience received her first overpoweriDg
| exclamation
"Sforza II be Duke"
surpassed any thing in memory The struggle be-
tween her and her wish to hear the par
tcuars Of his death, in the first order Of acting and
| the applause was commensurate.
In the fourth act, she is informed that, at the very
pitch of her in mnisterng to SforZas glory,
obstacle exists the person Of her believed pagewho
is her undoubted brother, and heir to the Dukedom At
this crisis she overhears aot to murder Sorza and the
bloody thought to her to contrvo that the page
shall sleep in her husbands place in the garden and be
murdered for him. The effect with which, after
hearing the plot she gives the following powerful transit
ton, worthy Of Mrs Siddens
/" Oh unrctributivc and silent heavens
Heard you these menf Thank God that can save him
The sun shone on them--on these nnwderas,
As ii shines on me !! Would II ,ccre Giniis
They thought 10 murder! =
The fifth is continued piece of trying and most
difficult acting The loving page by his unconscious
tenderness and fondness, drives her from her purpose
and Sorza, with the melancholy of his Frustrated ambi-
ton, forces it back upon her soul There is not per-
haps in the whole range Of the drama, difficult
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from the seest resolve to the most touching tender
ness-t her q oyeraskcd heart breaks with the
pleton of her desgn-the coronation Of Sforza.
Miss Clifton in this play is new creature. With no
one to initiate in her part, she has struck vein in
her own genius, and it is golden She is scfpos-
scsscd discriminating mistress Of herself and the pas
sons of her audience and the gradual rise and Of
power and passion in her conception Of the character
be the author Of the richest intellectual
he can ever have enjoyed She is beyond ques-
ton in the first rank Of intellectual players With the
advantage of unequalled and long acknowledged phys-
eai superiority she has stepped into the spiritual
arena Of Macready and Ellen Tree and cquallcd them
at their own weapons. great name may be predicted
| for her-if the award follow the deserving.
The part Of the Page, very difficult one too,
swcety played by Master Mestaycr of the Boston thea
tire. He looks the character exactly and made vivid
impression by his melancholy yet sometimes playful
actmg-represenn well tho doomed but royalspirted
boy, who is the victim of the drama, With the excep
ton Of this boy and Miss Clifton performer seemed
TO have wholly committed his part and it is no small
triumph TO Miss Clifton to have achieved so noble re-
suit so mdffcrcntly sustained.
| The Daro di Roma Of the 18th july says: "From
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