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 311851Full view - About this book
| Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr - Great Britain - 1895 - 282 pages
...whose memory he wrote this touching inscription : — " 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. She died March 11, 1753, Age 07." I was copying this inscription, using the flat top of the tomb for... | |
| Charles Dent Bell - English poetry - 1895 - 296 pages
...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." Walpole has remarked that Gray was " in flower" during the years 1750-1755. "The Ode on the Pleasure... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1895 - 190 pages
...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. She died, March n, 1753, aged LXXII." No testimony of the interment of Gray in the same tomb was inscribed... | |
| Arthur Christopher Benson - English literature - 1896 - 336 pages
...the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." Given the circumstances and, so to speak, the sense, how many people could have produced such an ideal... | |
| Thomas Gray - Stoke Poges (England) - 1896 - 48 pages
...confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." His mother's death left Gray with a sufficient competence to enable him to live on at Cambridge in... | |
| Charles Francis King - Europe - 1897 - 376 pages
...on which grave the children found these words : — HERB SLEEP THE REMAINS OF DOROTHY GRAY, WIDOW, THE CAREFUL, TENDER MOTHER OF MANY CHILDREN, ONE OF WHOM ALONE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO SURVIVE HER. Stoke Pogis. where Gray is buried. " It gets its name from two families which were united in marriage... | |
| Albert J. Foster - Chiltern Hills (England) - 1897 - 232 pages
...who passed beyond infancy out of a family of twelve. " The careful, tender mother," he calls her, " of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." A letter to Walpole, written two months before her death, mentions her illness, and also tells us something... | |
| J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1899 - 610 pages
...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. She died March 11, 1753, aged 67." Gray himself died in J uly, 1771 ; and in his will he left explicit... | |
| William John Hardy, F. E. Robinson, William Paley Baildon - Berkshire (England) - 1906 - 434 pages
...still be'read with ease: " 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. She died March 11th, 1753." Eighteen years later, following Gray's expressed wish, his remains were... | |
| Edward Lowe Temple - Europe - 1899 - 422 pages
...the author of the " Elegy " and his mother, which he touchingly inscribed before his own death, to "the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." At the left is a noble " yew-tree's shade," and beneath it good part of the immortal poem was written.... | |
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