| American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...•'•&• 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... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 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... | |
| Great Britain - 1854 - 500 pages
...glimmering twilight. who cannot fully enter into the spirit of Coleridge's lines? — " 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." Who does not sympathize with the convulsive start... | |
| Rowland Smith - English literature - 1855 - 552 pages
...salutation, bid him be of good cheer. J The other replied, his fortunes were such * " Like one, who 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 Lloth close... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 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,...the spirit of a man, as the simple idea of a spirit miimbodied following him — " Like one that in a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 444 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 - 1857 - 564 pages
...Oh, least of all! These terrors are of oldef standing. They date beyond body — or, without the body they would have been the same. All the cruel, tormenting,...of a man, as the simple idea of a spirit unimbodied followino him — " Like one that in a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 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,...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 poetry - 1857 - 432 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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 1857 - 126 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... | |
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