| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1857 - 432 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... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 610 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,... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 588 pages
...forth, yet little saw Uf what had else been seen — «. " Like one that on a lonesome road ]i. .Hi walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round,...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. " But soon there hreathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea.... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 792 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... | |
| Annie Keary - 1859 - 334 pages
...Ancient Mariner. " 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, Does close behind him tread." The mingling of fancy and reality in this sketch was very striking. Ruth... | |
| Harriet Cradock (hon.) - 1860 - 302 pages
...these lines— " ' Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in pain 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.' dread ; and who can dare to speak of comfort when the wickedness or the misery of almost every human... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1894 - 608 pages
...behind me." " 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 : " — Such is the fate of those who tamper with these visions of the night. Such, it is feared, was... | |
| Peter Paradox (pseud.) - 1860 - 296 pages
...CHAPTER III. " 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." COLERIDGE. But who is this ? thought he, — a demon vile, With wicked meaning, and a vulgar smile.... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pages
...else been seen. "Like one that on a lonesome road Both 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,... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 322 pages
...seen. " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned ronBd, 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,... | |
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