 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 - Page 84by Charles Lamb - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 332 pages
...this spell was si i apt : once more finally j yiewed the ocean green, exj,mt«l. Of what had else been 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... | |
 | 1866 - 588 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...fi.nallj ex~ 5 ' piated. 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... | |
 | Charlotte Eliza L. Riddell - 1866 - 322 pages
...virtue. I do not wish to see you a fashionable lady. Do not at first be too confident, but proceed— 1 Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread.' cowardly, because I know ' that what begins in fear usually ends in folly.' I want you to keep a balance,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 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...following him— Like one that on a lonesome road Dolh walk in fear and dread, And having once tam'd round, walks on And turns no more his head ; Because... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1867 - 500 pages
...hush in the merriment. I could see nothing, for I was looking in the wrong direction ; but I felt — 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune. Ibid. 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... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...hardly move. — LONGPELLOW. 31. — STANZA OP Six Lures, 8-6. (One set of rhymes only, alternate.) Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on And turns no more Ms head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 204 pages
...ex~ I viewe(l 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... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...expiated ; 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... | |
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