 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 Leisure Hour - Page 3941859Full view - About this book
 | Frederick Bolingbroke Ribbans - Librarians - 1873 - 194 pages
...family during even the lifetime of her abandoned husband, and the Poet wrote her epitaph thus : — " The careful, tender mother of many children, one " of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." Other similar little trips into the country had been frequently proposed, but were postponed till their... | |
 | Frederick Bolingbroke Ribbans - Librarians - 1873 - 200 pages
...family during even the lifetime of her abandoned husband, and the Poet wrote her epitaph thus : — " The careful, tender mother of many children, one " of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." Other similar little trips into the country had been frequently proposed, but were postponed till their... | |
 | Frederick Bolingbroke Ribbans - 1873 - 198 pages
...family during even the lifetime of her abandoned husband, and the Poet wrote her epitaph thus : — " The careful, tender mother of many children, one " of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." Other similar little trips into the country had been frequently proposed, but were postponed till their... | |
 | Universalism - 1874 - 1002 pages
...of his heart. How pathetically he pours out his sorrow over the grave of his mother: "In this tomb sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful,...of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her!" As Burns wrote from the depths of his sorrowful soul " Man was made to mourn," so Gray wrote his "Hymn... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1875 - 400 pages
...tenderly commemorated as follows on her tomb in Stoke Churchyard : — BESIDE HEB FRIEHD AND SISTER, HERE SLEEP THE REMAINS OF DOROTHY GRAY, WIDOW; THE CAREFUL...ONE OF WHOM ALONE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO SURVIVE HER. SHE DIED MARCH XI., MDCCLIII. AOED LXXn. During the two next years Gray would seem to have been unusually... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 392 pages
...Stoke Churchyard : — RESIDE HER FRIEND AND SISTER, HERE SLEEP THE REMAINS OF DOROTHY GRAY, WIDOW; THK CAREFUL TENDER MOTHER OF MANY CHILDREN; ONE OF WHOM ALONE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO SUBVIVE HER. SHE DIED MARCH XI., MDCCLJII. AQED I \\ M During the two next years Gray would seem to... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1876 - 162 pages
...her memory, but by his style and cast of thought. It runs thus : " Beside her friend and sister here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful,...one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her. She died March 11, 1753, aged 72." She had lived to read the Elegy, which was perhaps an ample recompense... | |
 | James Thorne - Greater London (England) - 1876 - 430 pages
...contains the remains of his aunt, Mary Antrobus, d. 1749, and, " beside her friend and sister, . . . Dorothy Gray, widow ; the careful tender mother of...of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." She d. March 1753. Gray died in July 1771, and was laid in the same vault, but no friendly hand added... | |
 | James Thorne - London Region (England) - 1876 - 456 pages
...contains the remains of his aunt, Mary Antrobus, d. 1749, and, "beside her friend and sister,. . . Dorothy Gray, widow ; the careful tender mother of...of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." She d. March 1763. Gray died in July 1771, and was laid in the same vault, but no friendly hand added... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1876 - 408 pages
...hei- ; and, at her death, Gray placed on her grave, in Stoke Pogis, an epitaph describing her as " the careful tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." The poet himself was, at his own desire, interred beside her worshipped grave. Goethe, like Schiller,... | |
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