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
| John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...pray. i- And now the spell was snapt : once more I view'd the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet ! who hast been a stranger long; O! strike it with...song. Of vanish'd troubles sing, Of fears for ever turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there... | |
| Waldo Howard - 1850 - 310 pages
...but this is very strange," said he. " Strange, indeed," said his companion, pressing on his way, " ' 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.' "I would... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 434 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 turned round, wajlks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread."... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 712 pages
...this spell was snapt : once more Sly exited. fl" I viewed the ocean 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... | |
| Joseph S. Moore - 1853 - 900 pages
...spell was snapt; once more The curse is I viewed the ocean green, p'atatt 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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 728 pages
....:•. And now this spell was snapt : once more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — . ., Like...dread, • And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; . • . . • . Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him... | |
| 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
...pray. And now this spell was snapt ; once more * I viewed the ocean 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 there... | |
| Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 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,...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... | |
| Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...pray. And now this spell was snapt; — once more I view'd the ocean green, 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 behind... | |
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