“She was our queen, our rose, our star;
And then she danced—O Heaven, her dancing!”
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) British politician, poet
"The Belle of the Ball" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 139.
Angelsea
Song lyrics, Catch Bull at Four (1972)
“She was our queen, our rose, our star;
And then she danced—O Heaven, her dancing!”
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) British politician, poet
"The Belle of the Ball" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 139.
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
9 September 1950
Source: 1946 - 1953, "Song of herself"; interviews by Olga Campos, Sept. 1950, Chapter 'My life', pp. 66-67
Balasaraswati (1918–1984) Indian dancer
Rukmini Devi in Dance readings and musings Balasaraswati: Her Art and Life, 1 December 2013, Narthaki.com http://www.narthaki.com/info/bookrev/bkrev1a.html,
“She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
On his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, Chapter 1 (Childhood).
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
Stanza 1. <br class="br"> The Blessed Damozel http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/715.html (1850)
Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist
Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
Context: Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.