 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 Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...been seen, — lake one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once tnra'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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 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...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread, ibid. Pan vi. So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. ibid. Part\\\. He prayeth... | |
 | 1875 - 844 pages
...left: that divince particula aurce had quite deserted me. I now pursued my way, as Coleridge says, Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth dose behind him tread. Just so I walked, and the footfall pattered softly behind me. The question,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...them up to pray. neane-.ijaN And now the spell was snapt: once I view'd the ocean green, And look'd Z madei Its path wai not upon the sea, In ripple or in shade. It raised my hair, it fann'd my cheek Xikc... | |
 | Walter Augustus Gray - 1876 - 184 pages
...but an ever-increasing fear and more overwhelming misery. Startled and dismayed, he goes on his way " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." The ghastly vision of the past which he has beheld is ever present to his sight—his sin is ever before... | |
 | Patrick Henry Woodward - Postal service - 1876 - 596 pages
...and safety. In a few hours it might be too late. Into the stream, accordingly, he urged the horse, " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." Cautiously feeling his way along the bar, Hinton advanced several rods without accident, but before... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...fear, and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me — Like one who on я lonely eed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we...eyes.' Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say, th The Monster ultimately becomes a terror to his creator, and haunts him like a spell. For two years... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...neck so free The albatross fell oil, and sank Like lead into the sea. And now this spell was snapt ; more . I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth,...more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Uoth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made ; Its... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1877 - 408 pages
...far-forth, but little saw Of what might else be seen. — 1798. t Lonely— It. 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1877 - 416 pages
...spell was snapt, And I could move my een : I look'd far-forth, but little saw 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... | |
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