| Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...following him— Like one that on a lonesome road Dolh walk in fear and dread, And having once tam'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 is... | |
| Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - English fiction - 1867 - 500 pages
...but I felt — 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. In the twinkling of an eye an awful Shape stood between me and the sun. Every heart beat thick, for... | |
| Robert X. Leeds - American poetry - 1999 - 366 pages
...them up to pray. And now this spell was snapped: once more I viewed the ocean green. And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen —...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... | |
| Rictor Norton - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 788 pages
...look about me: Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once tum'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. (Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner.') Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the... | |
| Una McCluskey, Carol-Ann Hooper - Medical - 2000 - 324 pages
...state of mind: 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. This dread constellation is normally so profoundly intolerable that human beings banish it from awareness... | |
| Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli - American fiction - 2000 - 744 pages
...malignant death: 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. hair-faced louts of Doubleday. They struck fear and wonder in the hearts of the smaller, gentler boys,... | |
| Muriel Spark - Fiction - 2001 - 418 pages
...crossing the park: 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. Does she go to a gym class? She must have caught me looking just now. He knows she does not wear a... | |
| Mary Shelley - Fiction - 2001 - 228 pages
...look about me: Like one who, on a lonely 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's Ancient Mariner] Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various... | |
| Harish Kapadia - Lāhul and Spiti (India) - 1999 - 290 pages
...Khan! APPENDICES 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. — The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) APPENDIX A Major Landmarks in the History of Spiti... | |
| Debbie Lee - Literary Criticism - 2017 - 314 pages
...look about met— Like one, who on a lonely 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. (54; cf. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," 446-51) To quote this, of all the passages, from Coleridge's... | |
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