fiend quotes

My mother groaned! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping loud Like a fiend hid in a cloud.

-William Blake
  Songs of Experience,'Infant Sorrow'.

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 Taylor Coleridge
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.6.

One could forgive the fiend for becoming a torrent, but to become an earthquake was really too much.

- CharlesJoseph, Prince de Ligne
  Of Napoleon I.  Attributed.

So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.440^1.

   A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadful fiend of gods and men ydrad.

- Edmund Spenser
  The Faerie Queen, bk.5, canto12, stanza 37.