 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 pages
...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.* ' Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner." Continuing thus, I came at length opposite... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Heaton - Painters - 1870 - 418 pages
...however, he does not quite reach. " 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." Whether conscious or not of his horrible companions, he is at all events unmoved... | |
 | Mary Shelley - Fiction - 2001 - 228 pages
...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. [Coleridge's Ancient Mariner] Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to... | |
 | Muriel Spark - Fiction - 2001 - 418 pages
...crossing the park: 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. Does she go to a gym class? She must have caught me looking just now. He knows... | |
 | Wallace Earle Stegner - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 516 pages
...identical magics. 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 fearful fiend Doth close behind him tread, DeVoto went through a strenuous, productive, socially useful,... | |
 | Debbie Lee - Literary Criticism - 2017 - 314 pages
...look about met— 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. (54; cf. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," 446-51) To quote this, of all the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 2002 - 260 pages
...been seen Like one, that on a lonesome road 500 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. 505 But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made: Its path... | |
 | Harish Kapadia - Lāhul and Spiti (India) - 1999 - 290 pages
...Khan! APPENDICES 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 Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) APPENDIX A Major Landmarks... | |
 | John Salinsky - Diseases in literature - 2002 - 252 pages
...recognise: 'Like one, that on a lonesone road / Doth walk in fear and dread / And having once turned round walks on, / And turns no more his head; / Because he knows, a fearful fiend / Doth close behind him tread.' I am reminded here of Wordsworth's similar dread when... | |
 | Jack McDevitt - Fiction - 2003 - 532 pages
...said Hutch. 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. —SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE, THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, Vl, 1798 TOR HAD NEVER... | |
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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. 
