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. The essays of Elia. A new ed - Page 84by Charles Lamb - 1857Full view - About this book
| 1853 - 710 pages
...without fearing that the baleful eyes of the arch enemy might be glaring at him through the dark : "Like one. that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread. And bavin-' once turned round walks on, And turna no more his head: Bet-aui-e he knows, a frightful flend... | |
| Melchior Yvan - 1854 - 386 pages
...more * I viewed the 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... | |
| 1854 - 456 pages
...viewed the ocean 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... | |
| Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...more I viewed the 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... | |
| 1854 - 500 pages
...glen, by the 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... | |
| 1855 - 458 pages
...the 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... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...more I viewed the 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... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...Whispering harm where harm is not ; And deluding tho unwary Till the fatal bolt ¡9 shot' Wordsworth. Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having onee tnrn'd round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Beeause he knows a frightful fiend Doth elose... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pages
...defined devils in Dante — tearing, mangling, choking, stifling, scorching demons — are they one half so fearful to the spirit of a man, as the simple idea of a spirit unimbodied following him — " Like one that in a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread. And having... | |
| Charles Jacobs Peterson - 1855 - 352 pages
...THE FLIGHT. Whence is that knocking! How is it with ine, when every noise appals me. — Shakspeare. Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk In fear and dread. Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. — Colervlge. THE precious moments... | |
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