Famous quotes containing the words bonny, barbara and/or allan:
“There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
““O mother, mother, make my bed!
O make it saft and narrow!
Since my love died for me today,
I’ll die for him tomorrow.””
—Unknown. Bonny Barbara Allan (l. 33–36)
“Thank Heaven! the crisis —
The danger, is past,
And the lingering illness,
Is over at last M,
And the fever called “Living”
Is conquered at last.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)