 | 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
...turn them up to 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....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
...turn them up to 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....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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 pages
...pray. The cnrse is And now this spell was snapt : once more finally expiated. I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else...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...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread*. Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various * Coleridge's " Ancient... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...theirs, Nor turn them up to 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...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...turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head, IS. canfc he knows a fiightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." The foolish and ill-natuied assertions... | |
 | 1824 - 696 pages
...obscure memory of his early vow haunting his mind like a deadly spectre. v as one Who dares not turn his head, . Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." After the events already alluded to, Paladonr wins the heart bf the Lady Isabella de Courtenaye, heiress... | |
 | 1827 - 510 pages
...start up from behind it ; yet she never once turned her head, nor quickened nor slackened her pace i Like one that on a lonesome road, Doth walk in fear and dread, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. She had preceded in this manner about... | |
| |
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. 
