 | Waldo Howard - 1850 - 310 pages
...strange," said he. " Strange, indeed," said his companion, pressing on his way, " ' 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1851 - 396 pages
...least of all ! These terrors are of older standing. They date beyond body — or, without the body, they would have been the same. All the cruel, tormenting,...mangling, choking, stifling, scorching demons — are they one-half so fearful to the spirit of a man, as the simple idea of a spirit unembodied following him... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1853 - 728 pages
...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 having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; . • . . • . Because he knows, a frightful fiend... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 712 pages
...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 having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...green, *tl> And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen ; — i 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... | |
 | Melchior Yvan - Voyages and travels - 1854 - 386 pages
...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 having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 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 once turn'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...ocean green, And looked far north, yet little saw Of what had else 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 he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1855 - 624 pages
...come to aflect us at all ? — or " Names, whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not !" they would have been the same. All the cruel, tormenting...road Doth walk in fear and dread. And having once tum'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...standing. They date beyond body — or, without the body, they would have been the same. All the cniel, tormenting, defined devils in Dante — tearing, mangling,...stifling, scorching demons — are they one half so Tearful to the spirit of a man, as the simple idea of a spirit unimbodied following him — " Like... | |
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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. 
