 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...turn them up to pray. And now this spell was snapt: once more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far and rejoice! Still echoes the dread walk* on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1828 - 386 pages
...to pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more I viewed the ocean green, «put«i. And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen —...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 - 1829 - 575 pages
...them up to pray. And now this spell was stiapt : 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 on a lonesome road Doth walk iu fear and dread, And having once turn'd round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...i« fi more nally «Pined. I view'd the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what hod But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea, In... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1833 - 420 pages
...with great truth. "Like one who on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on And turns no more his head, Because...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." Sometimes the poetical merit consists solely in a happy choice of epithets. " The moonlight steeped... | |
 | 1833 - 424 pages
...with great truth. "Like one who on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on And turns no more his head, Because...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." Sometimes the poetical merit consists solely in a happy choice of epithets. " The moonlight steeped... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pages
...half so fearful to the spirit of a man , as the simple idea of a spirit unembodied following him — Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.* That the kind of fear here treated of is purely spiritual — that it is strong in proportion as it... | |
 | 1835 - 432 pages
...the spirit of a man, as the simple idea of a spirit unembodied following him — " Like one that in a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread."* That the kind of fear here treated of is purely spiritual — that it is strong in proportion as it... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 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. i ' " He is relieved by the arrival of the diligence from Geneva, out of which jumps his friend Henry... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...the spirit of a man, as the simple idea of a spirit unembodied following him — " Like one that in a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having...head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close brhind him tread."* That the kind of fear here treated of is purely spiritual — that it is strong... | |
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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. 
