 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 - Side 311851Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1874 - 808 sider
...pathetic inscription : 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 XI., MDCCLIII. Aged LXXII. Gray had written his immortal Elegy, and the greatest of... | |
 | Appleton D. and co - 1870 - 900 sider
...confidence, beside her friena 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 67." Gray's description of the churchyard " Beneath those ragged elms,... | |
 | 1874 - 780 sider
...pathetic inscription : 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 XI., MDCCUII. Aged I.XXII. Gray had written his immortal Elegy, and the greatest of... | |
 | Frederick Bolingbroke Ribbans - 1873 - 194 sider
...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 sider
...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 - 200 sider
...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... | |
 | 1874 - 1002 sider
...out his sorrow over the grave of his mother: "In this 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!" As Burns wrote from the depths of his sorrowful soul " Man was made to mourn," so Gray wrote his "Hymn... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 400 sider
...Stoke Churchyard : — BESIDE HEB FRIEHD 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 XI., MDCCLIII. AOED LXXn. During the two next years Gray would seem to have been unusually... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 392 sider
...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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 sider
...deserted 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,...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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