 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
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 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...path was not upon the sea, In ripple or in shade. 427 belated, too late 429 abated, over It raised my ltair, it fann'd my cheek Like a meadow-gale of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pages
...walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Becanse he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread....path was not upon the sea, In ripple or in shade. 220 POEMS OF PLACES. It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek Like a meadow-gale of spring — It mingled... | |
 | Charles James Foster - 1878 - 440 pages
...echoing hills, he fell from his horse dead. Sassafras had shot him through the brain. CHAPTER XXVI. "Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." DARKNESS had nearly fallen, a welcome cloak to the living, and a pall over the ghastly dead, in that... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations, English - 1878 - 896 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...Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him treacl. ibid. Part vi. So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. ibid. Part\\\.... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1878 - 772 pages
...I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — 445 " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend 450 Doth close behind him tread. " But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 248 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...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." * That the kind of fear here treated of is purely spiritual — that it is strong in proportion as... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Poetry - 1879 - 672 pages
...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...Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.1 That the kind of fear here treated of is purely spiritual — that it is strong in proportion... | |
 | English poetry - 1879 - 314 pages
...walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Becanse he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread....path was not upon the sea, In ripple or in shade. POEMS OF PLACES. It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek Like a meadow-gale of spring — It mingled... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 382 pages
...Of what had else been seen — " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, 435 And having once turned round, walks on, And turns...him tread. " But soon there breathed a wind on me, 440 Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea In ripple or in shade. " It raised my... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1880 - 512 pages
...up to pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more The curse is I viewed the ocean green, j^y "P" And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else...behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind on mf, Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea, In ripple or in shade. It raised my... | |
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