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" In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her. "
The American Whig Review - Page 31
1851
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volume 1

William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow ; the tender, careful mother of many children, ONE of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her. She died March 11, 1753, aged sixty-seven." No testimony of the interment of Gray in the same tomb...
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Gray's Poetical Works: English and Latin : Illustrated

Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1847 - 276 pages
...piety and sorrow; BESIDE HER FRIEND AND SISTER, HERE SLEEP THE REMAINS OF DOROTHY GRAY, WIDOW, THE TENDER MOTHER OF MANY CHILDREN, ONE OF WHOM ALONE HAD THE MISFORTUNE Tl> SURVIVE HER. AGED LXXI1. It is usually supposed that the " Ode on the Progress of Poesy'' was written...
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Poems

James Thomas Fields - American poetry - 1849 - 122 pages
...author of the Elegy. * BESIDE HEB FRIEND AND SISTER, HERE SLEEP THE REMAINS OF DOROTHY GRAY, WIDOW, THE TENDER MOTHER OF MANY CHILDREN, ONE OF WHOM ALONE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO SURVIVE HER. NOTE 11. PAGE 18. Afcthinks 1 see that sainted sister nmc, Whoever has visited the Parisian hospitals,...
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Poems by James T. Fields.

James Thomas Fields - History - 1849 - 108 pages
...author of the Elegy. BESII>E HER FRIEND AND SISTER, HERE SLEEP THE REMAINS OF DOROTHY GRAY, WIDOW, THE TENDER MOTHER OF MANY CHILDREN, ONE OF WHOM ALONE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO SURVIVE HER. NOTE 11. PAGE 18. Methinks 1 see that sainted sister now, Whoever has visited the Parisian hospitals,...
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The Guardian, Volumes 32-33

Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...placed the following epitaph. Beride her Friend & Sister Here sleep the Remains of DOROTHY GBAT, Widow ; the careful tender Mother Of Many Children ; one of whom alone Had the Misfortune to survive her. She died March XI, MDCCLIII Aged LXXII. A certain writer says " that Gray seldom mentioned his mother...
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Pilgrimages to English Shrines

Mrs. S. C. Hall - England - 1850 - 324 pages
...CONFIDENCE BESIDE HER FRIEND AND SISTER, HERE SLEEP THE REMAINS OF DOROTHY GRAY, WIDOW, THE CAREFUL AND TENDER MOTHER OF MANY CHILDREN, ONE OF WHOM ALONE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO SURVIVE HER. SHE DIED MARCH 11, 1753, AGED 67 YEARS. The Poet's name is not upon the tomb, but he also lies with...
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The Friend of youth, and child's magazine

1862 - 1406 pages
...his mother, at Stoke Pogeis. The following is his epitaph on his mother : — " Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to twrnvoe her." T/> '/IT* THE ROSE. [FHOH THV OEBMAV.] a pity ."said little Sophy to her elder sister,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 94

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1854 - 632 pages
...attacks the female sex. The epitaph which the poet caused to be engraved upon her monument describes her as ' the careful, tender mother of many children,...of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her'; but the strongest proof of his affection is the celebrated passage in the letter to Mr. Nicholls, which,...
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 5

Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 582 pages
...In the same pions confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remaius of Dorothy Gray, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her. She died March llth, 1753, aged 67." The poet himself was of course the surviving child, who, as the...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver ...

William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...affection and sorrow : BESIDE HER FRIEND AND SISTER, HERE SLEEP THE REMAINS OF Sorotjj (Stag, WIDOW, THE CAREFUL, TENDER MOTHER OF MANY CHILDREN, ONE OF WHOM ALONE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO SURVIVE HER. In December, 1754, Gray completed his ode on " The Progress of Poetry." It was commenced two or three...
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