 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.  Littell's Living Age - Page 691872Full view - About this book
 | 1845 - 732 pages
...of the pleasantest atheist at times turn cold, and his philosophy slide away under his feet : — " 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 I Doth close... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...one-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 and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...more pa en™ ;. . i ' • J finally expiI viewed the ocean green, il.d • And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen ; — Like one...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. But soon there... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...pray. " And now this spell was snapt: once more I view'd the ocean green, R9 And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — " Like one,...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 [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 pages
...is And now this spell was snapt : once more tonally expi- j ^^ ^ ^^ green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — Like one,...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. But soon... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...pray. And now this spell was snapt : once 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, The mariner hath been cast into a trance ; for the angelic power causeth the vessel to drive northward,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 406 pages
...more a"ead"y expi" I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what else had been seen — Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth...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. But soon... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...of the pleasantest athnist at times turn cold, and his philosophy slide away under his feet : — " 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 behind... | |
 | 1909 - 524 pages
...wind, And Horror stalked before each man, And Terror crept behind, RG IV 37—48. äs compared with, Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...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. AM VI 37—42... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...more nail» I view'd the ocean green. And look'd far forth, yet little (aw Of what had else been • I Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once tura'd round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fient1. Doth close... | |
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