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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...been seen — Lake one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd an unaccu Ooth close behind him tread. 3ut soon there breathed a wind on me, Vor sound nor motion mode : Its...
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On Ellis's Specimens of the early English poets. Ellis' and Ritson's ...

Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 pages
...look about me. ' Like one who on a lonely road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turn'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head: Because...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.' "* He is relieved by the arrival of the diligence from Geneva, o.it of which jumps his friend Henry...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...little saw Of what had else been seen — Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, les meadow -gale of spring — It mingled strangely with my fears, Yet it felt like a welcoming. Swiftly,...
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Defence of the Whigs

John Pendleton Kennedy - 1844 - 192 pages
...dares not turn back, or look behind : " Like one who on a lonesome road , Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round — walks on . - And...knows a 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...
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Ainsworth's Magazine, Volume 5

William Harrison Ainsworth - 1844 - 614 pages
...tells us of — • 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...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.' I never thought of that ghastly passage before, except when reading ft. Why should I think of it now...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 112

1872 - 858 pages
...on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round , walks on And turna no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." This was neither anticipation nor afterthought, but essential part of a whole. The department of nature...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 pages
...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...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. The Mariner hath been cast into a trance. for the angelic power causeth the vessel to drive northward...
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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...been seen—- Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd Sut soon thnre breathed a wind on me, Vor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the tea, In...
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The Essays of Elia: First Series - Second Series

Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...following him — 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...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 it...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 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 he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him treaJ. " But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor soui.d nor motion made : Its path was not upon the...
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