 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 728 pages
...., 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 ; . •...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 pages
...look about me. * Like one who on a lonely road Doth walk in fear and dread. And, having once tnrn'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head : Because...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. > ' " He is relieved by the' arrival of the diligence from Geneva, out of which jumps his friend Henry... | |
 | 1853 - 528 pages
..."Like one that on a lonesome road, '.- T;o;;; Doth walk in fear and dread, -'V -'And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close upon Mm tread." In other respects Godwin was a remarkable man. His theories on the imperfectibility... | |
 | 1853 - 706 pages
...on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And bavin,,' onco turned round walks on. And turne no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." The intellect at that period did not seem to have a healthy, free action; hemmed in by rigid rules,... | |
 | 1853 - 708 pages
...the dark : " Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk In foar and dread, And haying; once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful flend Doth close behind him tread." The intellect at that period did not seem to have a healthy, free... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 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. But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made ; Its path was not upon the sea, In... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...been seen — 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...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, In... | |
 | Melchior Yvan - 1854 - 386 pages
...been seen — 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...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 In... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...seen ; — i 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...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. In... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...— are they one half so Tearful to the spirit of a man, as the simple idea of a spirit unimbodied following him — " Like one that in a lonesome road...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread ?" t That the kind of fear here treated of is purely spiritual — that it is strong in proportion... | |
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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. 
