 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
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 644 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 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. ISO THE ENGLISH POETS. It raised my hair, it fann'd my cheek Like a meadow-gale of spring — It mingled... | |
 | English literature - 1880 - 376 pages
...instance of artistic grasp and perfect presentation of appropriate subject take the following : — Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. It was not for this purpose, however, that I have referred to Coleridge. I wished, rather, to show... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1880 - 460 pages
...be spurred and driven on by some overmastering power above and back of the author, making him, — " Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." The stimulant which kindled Dickens's imagination was Carlyle's wonderful prose epic, " The French... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 308 pages
...theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. The curse And now this spell was snapt : once is finally ' ' expiated. more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth,...there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion maue : Its path was not upon the sea, In ripple or in shade. It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1881 - 592 pages
...iheirs, Nor turn them up to pray. " And now this spell was snapt : once more I viewed the ocean green, Of what had else been seen — " Like one that on...his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth elose behind him tread. " But soon there breathed a »md CD Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was... | |
 | Autumn leaves - 1882 - 210 pages
...4. ' Lo, the Black Warrior, he who battle-spent Bareheaded, served the captive in his tent.' 97. ' Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.' 1. ' That low, swarthy, short-nosed, round-eyed satyr, With the wide nostrils and Silenus' aspect,... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 386 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... | |
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