 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...free The albatross fell oil, and sank Like lead into the sea. And now this spell was snapt ; more . I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet...more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Uoth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made ; Its... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pages
...from theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. And now this spell was snapt : once more The curse is finally I viewed the ocean green, '""" And looked far forth,...turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Becanse he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind on me,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 pages
...them up to 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...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... | |
 | Charles James Foster - 1878 - 440 pages
...echoing hills, he fell from his horse dead. Sassafras had shot him through the brain. CHAPTER XXVI. "Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread." DARKNESS had nearly fallen, a welcome cloak to the living, and a pall over the ghastly dead, in that... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations, English - 1878 - 896 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...Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him treacl. ibid. Part vi. So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. ibid. Part\\\.... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1878 - 772 pages
...I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — 445 " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend 450 Doth close behind him tread. " But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made... | |
 | English poetry - 1879 - 314 pages
...theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. And now this spell was snapt: once more Thecnree is finally T . , , expiated. I viewed the ocean green, And looked far...turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Becanse he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. But soon there breathed a wind on me,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 248 pages
...one-half so fearful to the spirit of a man, as the simple idea of a spirit unembodied following him — " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Poetry - 1879 - 672 pages
...half so fearful to the spirit of a man as the simple idea of a spirit unembodied following him — Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.1 That the kind of fear here treated of is purely spiritual — that it is strong in proportion... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 382 pages
...Of what had else been seen — " Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, 435 And having once turned round, walks on, And turns...him tread. " But soon there breathed a wind on me, 440 Nor sound nor motion made : Its path was not upon the sea In ripple or in shade. " It raised my... | |
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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. 
