...Elegy,' to the east of the church, and under a stone bearing his touching testimony that she was ' The careful tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.' Gray, at his own request, rests his head upon the lap of earth by her side. GEOEGE GEOTE. 1794-1871....

...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...

...March 1753, aged 62. He was most tenderly attached to her, and placed upon her tomb an inscription to the 'careful tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.' The friendship with Horace Walpole had been renewed in 1744, at first with more courtesy than cordiality,...

...thought. It runs thus : — " Beside her friend and sister here sleep the remains of Dorothy Qray, widow, the careful tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her. She died March 11, 17S3, aged 72." She had lived to read the Elegy t which waa perhaps an ample recompense...

...caused to be inscribed this singular but affectionate epitaph : " Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful and tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." Pope chose to be interred in the pleasant little church at Twickenham, where he had always worshipped....

...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." In the summer of 1753 Gray made a leisurely journey from Cambridge...

...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." In the July of 1753 Gray made a leisurely journey from Cambridge...

...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." When, a few months later, Mason had been standing by the death-bed of his father, and spoke to his...

...obligations and affection on her tombstone in the 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." Even after her marriage his mother, in partnership with an elder sister, carried on business as a milliner,...

...Stoke Poges. We cannot quote too often the beautiful inscription Gray placed on her tomb — the " mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." Gray's life was lonely. He was never married, and apparently never thought of marrying, unless we magnify...