 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 496 pages
...seen — Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd roud, walks on And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea It... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 362 pages
...following him — Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turnM round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a. frightful fiend Doth elose behind him tread*. That the kind of fear here treated of is purely spiritual — that it is strong... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 - 634 pages
...ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Jut soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made : its path was not upon the sea, In... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1838 - 492 pages
...seen — Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd roud, walks on And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea It... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...fear ; and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me. 4 Like one who on a lonely road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turn'd round, walks on, And tnrns no more his head : Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.' " * He is... | |
 | 1839 - 394 pages
...contemplate. Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread ; And having once looked round, walks on, And turns no more his head, — Because...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. And perhaps the strongest proof of her judgment is to be found in the economy and reserve with which... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...ocean green. And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — Lake one, that on ader' Ooth close behind him tread. 3ut soon there breathed a wind on me, Vor sound nor motion mode : Its... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1840 - 532 pages
...contemplation " Like one that, on л lonesome road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head, Because...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." No ! rather let him look upon its present golden tide of flood in a better spirit, adopting, to the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...simple idea of a spirit unembodied following him — Like one that on a lonesome road Doth v.-;i) k in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on And turns no more his hend ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread *. That the kind of fear here... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1844 - 656 pages
...up these phantoms of the poets. There's Coleridge, confound him! who tells us of — ' One that on a lonesome road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.' I never thought of that ghastly passage before, except when reading it. Why should I think of it now... | |
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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. 
