 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.  Cyclopædia of English literature - Page 340by Robert Chambers - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1888 - 330 pages
...viewed the ocean green, "' ' 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...behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind on meNor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea, In ripple or in shade. It raised my hair,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1888 - 658 pages
...the ocean doing ? ' SECOND VOICE. ,' ' Still as a slave before his lord, The ocean hath no blast : " Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth c'ose behind him tread. "But soon thare breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made : •• U... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1889 - 248 pages
...turn them up to pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more I viewed the ocean green, The enree is And looked far forth, yet little saw ***** """"' Of...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Bat soon there breathed a wind on me. Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea, It... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1889 - 88 pages
...had else been seen, — I viewed the ocean green, The curse is And looked far forth, yet little saw Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made : COLERIDGE. And the ancient Mariner beholdeth his native country. It raised my hair, it fanned my... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1890 - 516 pages
...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...sea, In ripple or in shade. It raised my hair, it fann'd my cheek Like a meadow-gale of spring— It mingled strangely with my fears, Yet it felt like... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1890 - 412 pages
...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...sea, In ripple or in shade. It raised my hair, it fann'd my cheek Like a meadow-gale of spring — It mingled strangely with my fears, Yet it felt like... | |
 | Kevin Z. Moore - 1993 - 344 pages
...of a more prosperous form of labor, the narrator initially portrays him as an unregenerate mariner "that on a lonesome road/ Doth walk in fear and dread,...knows, a frightful fiend/ Doth close behind him tread" (Rime of the Ancient Mariner 6:445-51). The demon which dogs his heels is the spirit of a perverted... | |
 | Nicholas V. Riasanovsky - 1995 - 128 pages
...step of his way. Again, it was Coleridge who gave the best expression to their common predicament: Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.91 90. Wordsworth, "Prelude" 1799, 1805, 1850, p. 535. The Emergence of Romanticism in Germany... | |
 | Michael Macovski - 1994 - 244 pages
...Coleridge repeatedly represents the Mariner's animus as a "frightful fiend" (450). The Mariner is thus Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. (446-51) The Pilot, too, deems the returning ghost-ship "fiendish" (538), and several stanzas later... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...more The curse is finally I viewed the ocean green, expiated. And looked far forth, yet little saw 445 Of what had else been seen — Like one, that on a...turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; 450 Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind... | |
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