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 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 1798 - 240 pages
...might else be seen. Like one, that 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. But soon there breath'da wind on mr, Ne sound ne motion made : Its path was not upon the sea In lipple... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...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...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breath'da wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made .Its path was not upon the sea In ripple... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...else 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...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breath'da wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea In ripple... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...be seen. * Like one, that 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...a frightful, fiend ' Doth close behind him tread. .. . > ' But soon there breath'da wind on me, ' Ne sound ne motion made: . ' ' Its path was not upon... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...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...knows, a frightful fiend 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...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...knows, a frightful fiend 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 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...knows, a frightful fiend 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... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 pages
...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...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread*. Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various * Coleridge's " Ancient... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 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...knows, a frightful fiend 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... | |
 | English literature - 1824 - 696 pages
...obscure memory of his early vow haunting his mind like a deadly spectre. v as one Who dares not turn his head, . Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." After the events already alluded to, Paladonr wins the heart bf the Lady Isabella de Courtenaye, heiress... | |
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