Word: belinda
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Tuesday evening, the Pi Eta Society presented Gilbert's Comedy "Engaged" at the Academy of Music at Haverhill, with the following cast of characters: Cheviot Hill, G. B. Shepard; Belvawney, G. R. Blinn; Mr. Symperson, E. T. Edgerly; Angus McCalister, R. S. Gorham; Major McGillicudy, H. Holden; Belinda Ireherne, W. B. Brewer; Minnie, G. W. Rolfe; Mrs. Macfarlane, E. F. Woods; Maggie, L. L. Jackson; Propertiro, S. L. Foster. During the intermissions, impersonations were given by I. L. Winter...
...course the first thing for a poet to do is to have a lady love. Now I never cared enough about the fair sex to get beyond a limited acquaintance with two or three of them, so I created a mistress in my fancy, and called her Belinda. Up to the present time I have written seventy-six poems to this fair one, in which I have traced all the incidents of an imaginary courtship. The first describes our meeting; we did not know each other, and I was struck with Cupid's dart at the outset. It begins thus...
...fair and frail Belinda...
...about to lead her to the altar and live happily ever afterwards, when she discloses to me that in taking her I must also take her mother, two maiden aunts, a grandmother (paternal), and a little sister under my protection. This is too much, and I send Belinda the following farewell...
...Belinda dear, I sadly fear