 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. Ibid. Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread, ibid. Part vi. So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. The Ancient Mariner. Part... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 204 pages
...Nor turn them up to pray. The curse is And now this spell was snapt : once more plated ex~ I viewe(l the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek Like a meadow-gale of spring — It mingled strangely with my... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Heaton - 1870 - 418 pages
...horse and stretches forth his claws to clutch his prey, which, however, he does not quite reach. " On a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." Whether conscious or not of his horrible companions, he is at all events unmoved by their presence... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. ' ' And now this spell was snapped : once more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far...behind him tread. "But soon there breathed a wind on roe, Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea " It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek,... | |
 | Maggie (fict.name.) - 1871 - 310 pages
...through human channels, and are the expressions of earthly love. FEAGMENT VII. POOR LITTLE JOHNNIE. " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." COLEKIDGE'S A ncient Mariner. FRAGMENT VII. POOR LITTLE JOHNNIE. THERE are few things pleasanter to... | |
 | 1871 - 692 pages
...ever after that she was not a living woman." We had no more words on the matter, but again I was " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." The faintest tinge of watchfulness began to appear in Frank's manner .toward me : he scarcely left... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 134 pages
...from theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. And now this spell was snapt: once more Th * c " rse ^ finally I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. r - . , r r expiated; But soon there breathed a Wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made ; Its path was... | |
 | 1872 - 844 pages
...instance, that which pictures the horror which held the Mariner's eyes fixed before him so that he little saw of what had else been seen : — " Like...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." This was neither anticipation nor afterthought, but essential part of a whole. The department of nature... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1872 - 304 pages
...spectre wrought by his stained hand, which would for ever hound him on, nor suffer him to gaze behind. Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. The secret of my marriage, I said, shall die with the past that gave it birth. I will pluck the dead... | |
 | John Lane Ford - 1872 - 300 pages
...But it would repeat itself, and nolens volens she remembered it. It was from the Ancient Mariner. ' Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.' She imagined the long strides of a following and persistent demon. She turned round involuntarily to... | |
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Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. 
