Unknown. Bonny Barbara Allan

Famous quotes containing the words unknown, bonny and/or allan:

    Pray you bid
    These unknown friends to’s welcome, for it is
    A way to make us better friends, more known.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands.
    Oh! where hae ye been?
    They hae slain the Earl of Murray,
    And hae laid him on the green.
    —Unknown. The Bonny Earl of Murray (l. 1–4)

    The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)