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" And through the chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a griesly sight ; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There, face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand... "
Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical - Page 84
by Nathan Drake - 1828
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...time : " he wa> a "luaM partwo of the home of Lancanler, in whom the (pint Look down, and see a grisly sight; A vault where the bodies are buried upright...There, face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Maulevercrs stand ; And, in his place, among eon and sire, Is John de Clapham, that fierce Esquire,...
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Poems of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1855 - 704 pages
...pain, Is spotless, and holy, and gentle, and bright : And glides o'er the earth like an angel of light. Pass, pass who will, yon chantry door; And, through...chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a grisly sight ; A vault where the bodies are buried upright 1 There, face by face, and hand by hand,...
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William Wordsworth: A Biography

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...to the " Chantry door, Where thro' the chink in the fractured floor You look down and see a grisly sight, A vault where the bodies are buried upright...There, face by face and hand by hand, The Claphams and Maulcverers stand ; And in hit place, among son and sire, la John do Clapham, that fierce Esquire :...
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A Guide to Ripon, Harrogate, Fountains Abbey, Bolton Priory, and Several ...

John Richard Walbran - Harrogate (England) - 1856 - 162 pages
...griesly sight," which, if it ever existed, materially, I am sorry to say has long since disappeared. " Pass, pass who will, yon chantry door, And, through...the chink in the fractured floor Look down and see a griesley sight ; A Vault where the bodies are buried upright ; There face by face, and hand by hand,...
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Black's Picturesque Guide to Yorkshire

Yorkshire (England) - 1858 - 344 pages
...Claphams of Beamsley, who, according to the tradition alluded to by Wordsworth, were interred upright. " Pass, pass, who will, yon chantry door ; And through...down, and see a griesly sight ; A vault where the hodies are buried npright I There, face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...pain, Is spotless, and holy, and gentle, and bright, And glides o'er the earth like an angel of light. Pass, pass who will, yon chantry door, And, through...chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a grisly sight ; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There, face by face, and hand by hand,...
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The White Doe of Rylstone, Or, The Fate of the Nortons

William Wordsworth - 1859 - 176 pages
...Is spotless, and holy, and gentle, and bright, — And glides o'er the earth like an angel of light. Pass, pass who will, yon chantry door ; And, through...buried upright ! There face by face, and hand by hand, Tbe Claphams and Mauleverers stand ; And, in his place, among son and sire, Is John ck' Clapham, that...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...and gentle, and bright, And glides o'er the earth like an angel of light. Look down, and see a grisly sight ; A vault where the bodies are buried upright...hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand ; And, in nis place, among son and sire, Is John de Clapham, that fierce esquire, A valiant man, and a name of...
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Old abbeys of England

England - Abbeys - 1862 - 162 pages
...that position. But this is at present a mere poetical myth, founded, no doubt, on tradition : — ' Pass, pass who will yon chantry door, And through...chink in the fractured floor, Look down and see a grisly sight, — A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There, face by face, and hand by hand,...
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Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain, Volume 1

William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt - Abbeys - 1862 - 236 pages
...yon chantry door, And through the chink in the fraclured floor Look down and fee a grifly fight,— A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There, face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Maulevers (land j And in his place, among fon and fire, Is John de Clapham, that fierce efquire, A...
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