 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.  Cyclopædia of English literature - Page 340by Robert Chambers - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...been seen. " 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...sea, In ripple or in shade. " It raised my hair ; it fann'd my cheek Like a meadow-gale of spring : It mingled strangely with my fears ; Yet it felt like... | |
 | 1857 - 676 pages
...without fearing that the baleful eyes of the arch enemy might bo glaring at him through the dark : "Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." The intellect at that period did not seem to have a healthy, free action ; hemmed in by rigid rules,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1858 - 610 pages
...been seen — " 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...sea, In ripple or in shade. " It raised my hair, it fann'd my cheek, Like a meadow-gale of spring ; It mingled strangely with my fears, Yet it felt like... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1859 - 334 pages
...Alice's face was as yet a stranger. Next came a vivid realisation of a verse from the Ancient Mariner. " Like one that on a lonesome road, Doth walk in fear...more his head : Because he knows a frightful fiend, Does close behind him tread." The mingling of fancy and reality in this sketch was very striking. Ruth... | |
 | Peter Paradox (pseud.) - 1860 - 296 pages
...Doctor. " And nothing to pay," said Malley, with a broad grin, while he made his way out. CHAPTER III. " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth, walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." COLERIDGE. But who is this ? thought he, — a demon vile, With wicked meaning, and a vulgar smile.... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1894 - 608 pages
...certain that I shall not see it, that I shall see it no more. None the less is it still behind me." " Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread : " — Such is the fate of those who tamper with these visions of the night. Such, it is feared, was... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...been seen — " Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once tuvn'd round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because...sea, In ripple or in shade. " It raised my hair, it fann'd my cheek Like a meadow-gale of spring — It mingled strangely with my fears, Yet it felt like... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1863 - 510 pages
...theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. The cnrse is And now this spell was snapt : once more aied!ye*pi" I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet...turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fieud Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 392 pages
...I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — KK " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fie ml Doth close behind him tread. "But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1866 - 588 pages
...turn them up to 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...sea, In ripple or in shade. It raised my hair, it fann'd my cheek Like a meadow gale of spring — It mingled strangely with my fears, Yet it felt like... | |
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