| Peter Paradox (pseud.) - 1860 - 296 pages
...nothing to pay," said Malley, with a broad grin, while he made his way out. CHAPTER III. " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth, walk in fear and dread, And...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.... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1894 - 608 pages
...shall not see it, that I shall see it no more. None the less is it still behind me." " Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And...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... | |
| Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen. "Like one that on a lonesome road Both walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round,...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,... | |
| Harriet Cradock (hon.) - 1860 - 302 pages
...voice of great sweetness, he read these lines— " ' Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in pain and dread, And having once turned round walks on And...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... | |
| Henry Reed - English poetry - 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,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 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... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...been seen — " Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once tuvn'd 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 Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...following him ? "Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turn'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 it GHOSTS.... | |
| English poetry - 1863 - 392 pages
...ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — KK " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And...turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fie ml Doth close behind him tread. "But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1863 - 510 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...turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fieud Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made... | |
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