 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry, Modern - 1836 - 170 pages
...the ocean green, And looked 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 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 - English literature - 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...following him — " Like one that in a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turu'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread ?"* That the kind of fear here treated of is purely spiritual — that it is strong in proportion as... | |
 | 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 - Demonology - 1838 - 1198 pages
...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 relieved by the arrival of the diligence from Geneva, out of which jumps his friend Henry... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1844 - 516 pages
...brain reeled, I passed into the farther room, without the courage to cast a look behind. Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread ; And,...on. And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a fearful fiend Doth close behind him tread. This was not attended with much improved comfort ; for,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1845 - 496 pages
...railing, he is sure to look anxiously around — " Like one that on some lonesome road Doth walk, with fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks...on And turns no more his head, Because he knows a fearful fiend Doth close behind him tread." On this principle was it — or without any principle —... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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. 
