 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.  The Essays of Elia - Seite 132von Charles Lamb - 1892 - 249 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1805 - 284 Seiten
...more ,1 viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 Seiten
...more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — 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... | |
 | 1857 - 878 Seiten
...those terrors so well described by Coleridge, who, I think, must have been garotted in his day ; — " Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walk* on, And turns no more hix head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind... | |
 | 1836 - 634 Seiten
...murderers, that she came to resemble the fearful man, so admirably depicted by Coleridge, who — — — " on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head, IS. canfc he knows a fiightful fiend Doth close... | |
 | 1827 - 510 Seiten
...start up from behind it ; yet she never once turned her head, nor quickened nor slackened her pace i Like one that on a lonesome road, Doth walk in fear and dread, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. She had preceded in this manner about... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 Seiten
...more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turn'd round, walk* on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1828 - 386 Seiten
...viewed the ocean green, «put«i. And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — 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... | |
 | 1828 - 404 Seiten
...start up from behind it ; yet she never once turned her head, nor quickened nor slackened her pace ; Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. She had proceeded in this manner about... | |
 | 1828 - 398 Seiten
...start up from behind it ; yet she never once turned her head, nor quickened nor slackened her pace ; Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, Beeause he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. She had proceeded in this manner about... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1833 - 420 Seiten
...a sudden bound." The influence of superstitious fears is portrayed with great truth. "Like one who 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... | |
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