 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
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the miafortune to survive her. She died March llth, 1753, aged 67." The poet himself was of course the... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Belgium - 1855 - 608 pages
...same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of DOROTHY GBAY, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her. She died Marc*h 11, 1763, aged sixty-seven. The reputation of Gray after the publication of his " Elegy"... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856 - 596 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...affectionate and mournful in the q,' tl following words : — " 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." Of Gray's poetical compositions it is universally admitted, that his " Elegy in a Country Churchyard"... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - Epitaphs - 1857 - 560 pages
...same pious confidence Besideher friend and sister, Here sleep the remains of DoEoinr GRAY, Widow : the careful, tender mother of Many children ; ONE of whom alone Had the misfortune to survive her. She died Marth 11, 1753, aged sixty-seven." GRAY is buried in this tomb, but it bears no mention of... | |
 | T P Grinsted - Great Britain - 1859 - 342 pages
...sadness so characteristic of his verse : — " Here Sleep the Remains of j3orotl)u drat;, Wtitsata, The careful, tender mother of many children, One of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." Gray was at one time ridiculed, but honour is now paid to his name.* A brother poet, Walter Savage... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1860 - 422 pages
...expresses his affection and sorrow : BESIDE HER FRIEND AND SISTER, HERE SLEEP THE REMAINS OP 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 oi Poetry." It was commenced two or three... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...Stoke. Gray seems to have felt her loss acutely. In an eptaph inscribed upon her tomb, he commemorates her as "the careful, tender mother of many children,...of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." In 1765 he took a iourney into Scotland, where he formed an intimacy with Beattie. He thence penetrated... | |
 | John Stoughton - Windsor (Windsor and Maidenhead, England) - 1862 - 266 pages
...interment of his aunt and lamented mother." In that tomb " sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." A more recent inscription under the adjoining window runs thus : — " Opposite to this stone, in the... | |
 | Dutton, Allen and co - 1863 - 704 pages
...at the east end of the church has an epitaph inritten by him to Mary Antrobus and to " Dorothy Gray, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her ;" the vault, constructed at his expense, also contains the poet's remains ; he died at Cambridge in... | |
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