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. Littell's Living Age - Page 691872Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...more I view'd the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little- saw Of what had else been seen. 186 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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more I view'd the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen. Like one, that...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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more J view'd the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen. Like one, that...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... | |
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1805 - 284 pages
...pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more ,1 viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — Like one,...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. But soon... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — Like one,...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. But soon... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pages
...this spell was snapt : once more finally expiated. I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — Like one,...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... | |
| 1857 - 878 pages
...those terrors so well described by Coleridge, who, I think, must have been garotted in his day ; — " Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walk* on, And turns no more hix head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind hiui tread."... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 pages
...fear ; and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to 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 he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread*. Continuing... | |
| Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — Like one,...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... | |
| 1836 - 634 pages
...murderers, that she came to resemble the fearful man, so admirably depicted by Coleridge, who — — — " on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head, IS. canfc he knows a fiightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." The foolish... | |
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