 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.  Littell's Living Age - Seite 691872Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 Seiten
...more I view'd the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little- saw Of what had else been seen. 186 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 he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 Seiten
...pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more I view'd the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen. Like one, that...road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on And turns no more his head : Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 Seiten
...pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more J view'd the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen. Like one, that...road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on And turns no more his head : Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1805 - 284 Seiten
...pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more ,1 viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — Like one,...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. But soon... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 Seiten
...pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — Like one,...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. But soon... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 Seiten
...this spell was snapt : once more finally expiated. I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — Like one,...road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd 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 hiui tread."... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 Seiten
...fear ; and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me : Like one who, on a lonely 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*. Continuing... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 Seiten
...pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — Like one,...road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close... | |
 | 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 behind him tread." The foolish... | |
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