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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. "
Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of ... - Page 340
edited by - 1844 - 4 pages
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Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pages
...theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. The curse is And now this spell was snapt : once more finally expiated. I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet...road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close...
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The cabinet; or The selected beauties of literature [ed. by J ..., Volume 1

Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...men stood together. anew' All stood together on the deck, For a charnel-dungeon fitter : All fix'd on me their stony eyes, That in the Moon did glitter....road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close...
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The British poets of the nineteenth century, including the select works of ...

British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...was high ; The dead men stood together. The pang, the curse, with which they died, Had never paused away : I could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor turn...road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turn'd round, walk* on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 9; Volume 14

Theology - 1833 - 424 pages
...a sudden bound." The influence of superstitious fears is portrayed with great truth. "Like one who on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." Sometimes the poetical merit consists solely in a happy choice of epithets. " The moonlight steeped...
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The Christian Examiner and General Review, Volume 14

Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - Liberalism (Religion) - 1833 - 420 pages
...a sudden bound." The influence of superstitious fears is portrayed with great truth. "Like one who on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." Sometimes the poetical merit consists solely in a happy choice of epithets. " The moonlight steeped...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.

John William Carleton - 1840 - 532 pages
...its hills and glades so recently exhibited, should turn from the contemplation " Like one that, on л lonesome road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having...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...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...Up to the moon is cast — If he may know which way to go, For she guides him smooth or grim. See, brother, see ! how graciously She looketh down on...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. The Mariner hath been cast into a trance. for the angelic power causeth the vessel to drive northward...
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volume 123

Languages, Modern - 1909 - 524 pages
...wind, And Horror stalked before each man, And Terror crept behind, RG IV 37—48. äs compared with, Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. AM VI 37—42 and And never a human voice comes near To speak a gentle word: And by all forgot, we...
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The Mistake of a Life-time: Or, the Robber of the Rhine Valley. A Story of ...

Waldo Howard - 1850 - 310 pages
...but this is very strange," said he. " Strange, indeed," said his companion, pressing on his way, " ' Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.' "I would some form might confront me now, of flesh and blood like ourselves, or that we might have...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...fixed on me their stony eyes, That in the moon did glitter. The pang, the curse, with which they dud, و* trend. But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made ; Its path was not upon the...
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