 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
 | William Clark Russell - 1872 - 304 pages
...spectre wrought by his stained hand, which would for ever hound him on, nor suffer him to gaze behind. Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. The secret of my marriage, I said, shall die with the past that gave it birth. I will pluck the dead... | |
 | John Lane Ford - 1872 - 300 pages
...But it would repeat itself, and nolens volens she remembered it. It was from the Ancient Mariner. ' Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.' She imagined the long strides of a following and persistent demon. She turned round involuntarily to... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - United States - 1872 - 622 pages
...can advance to no friendly shelter, and yet he dares not turn back, or look behind : " Like one who on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And...frightful fiend • Doth close behind him tread." I should not have dwelt so much upon the topics presented in the history of that brief interval between... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...was snapt: once more Tta™» u taw I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little «aw N brwthed a wind on me, Nor sound nur motbu made : It« path was not upon the sea, In ripple or in shade.... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...lonesome rood Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on, And turns no moro ust, and his unquestion'd truth ; In every place ahe wander' d, where they'd been, And sadly-sacred fann'd my cheek Like a meadow-gale of spring — • It mingled strangely with my fears, Yet it felt... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1873 - 438 pages
...blood of the pleasantest atheist at times turn cold, and his philosophy slide away under his feet : — "Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." The harmony and variety of Coleridge's versification, his exquisite delineations of the heart, his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 606 pages
...which bring the philosophic mind. The ' Antient Mariner ' still holds us with his glittering eye, — 1 Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.' There is a story of Tieck's, the ' Runnenberg,' which affords a good example of what we mean. A young... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 470 pages
...them up to pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more Jhc..cur'e " I viewed the ocean green, cScd And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Hut soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea, In... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 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. Part vi. So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. The Aneient Mariner. Part... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...I could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. '' And now this spell was snapped: once more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far...Doth close behind him tread. "But soon there breathed a-wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea In ripple or in shade. " It... | |
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