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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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Yorkshire Illustrations of English History

James Goodeve Miall - Yorkshire (England) - 1865 - 354 pages
..." Upon the north side of the choir of the Claphams, there is a vault for setting bodies erect in." "There, face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand." Scarcely any trace remains of the cloister court, chapter house, dormitory, refectory, &c. The prior's...
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The Boy's friend, a monthly journal, Volume 2

1866 - 476 pages
...Beamsley, who, according to popular tradition, there buried their dead in a standing posture. " Paw, paee who will yon chantry door, And through the chink in the fractured floor Look down to see a grisly sight A rault where the bodies are buried upright. There, face to face, and hand by...
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Handbook for Travellers in Yorkshire ...

John Murray (Firm) - Yorkshire (England) - 1867 - 644 pages
...tradition, the Claphams of Beamsley, and their ancestors the Mauleverers, were interred upright : — " Pass, pass who will yon chantry door, And through...sight ; A vault where the bodies are buried upright I There face by face and hand by hand The Claphains and Mauleverers stand ; And in his place among...
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The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted ..., Volume 21

Robert Hall Baynes - 1877 - 674 pages
...modern examinations have confirmed the truth of the tradition. However, the poet has utilized it : — " Pass, pass who will, yon chantry door, And through...chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a grisly eight — 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 - 1867 - 144 pages
...spotless, and holy, and gentle, and bright, — And glides o'er the earth like an angel of light. c2 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 Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 622 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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Black's Guide to Harrogate, and Vicinity: Including Fountains Abbey, Bolton ...

Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Harrogate (Yorkshire, England) - 1871 - 160 pages
...according to the tradition alluded to by Wordsworth, were interred upright. 30 VICINITY OF HAREOGATE. " Pass, pass, who will, yon chantry door, And through...chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a griealy sight ; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! " The " griesly sight " can no longer...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 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 the chink in the fractured floor Look down, and sec a griesly sight ; A vault where the bodies arc buried upright ! There, face by face, and hand by...
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The poetical works of William Wordsworth, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M ...

William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...and pain, Is spotless, and holy, and gentle, and hright : And glides o'er the earth like an angel of Pass, pass who will, yon chantry door ; And, through the chink in the fractured lloor Look down, and see a grieily sight : A vault where the hodies are huried upright ! There, face...
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the poets of lhkeland wordsworth

T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 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, The...
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