 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
 | 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...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... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 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... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...P',,"™' !• . ' I ' finally *»piI 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. i But soon... | |
 | 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...dread, And having once turned round, walks on And turns no more his head." Who does not sympathize with the convulsive start of the physician, when told... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Rowland Smith - 1855 - 552 pages
...salutation, bid him be of good cheer. J The other replied, his fortunes were such * " Like one, who 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 Lloth close... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pages
...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 once tum'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 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. 62 HALF-HOUKS... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...I viewed the ocean green, And looked far north, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — lake 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 ho knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there... | |
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