...same pious confidence, heside 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, afew months later, Mason had been standing by the death-bed of his father, and spoke to his friend...

...painfully reveals the intensity of his grief : — •" 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." Cowper was but six years old when his mother died, and yet her loving care and her gentle attentions...

...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 llth, 1753, aged 67." A vicar of Stoke, who died in 1780, and doubtless, read the funeral...

...having stood over his dust. Here is the inscription he put upon his mother's grave : " Dorothy Gray. The careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." The touch in the last words, " the misfortune to survive her ! " — Carlyle's words upon his wife's...

...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 July, 1771 ; and in his will he left explicit...

...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....

...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....

...was equally grateful to his mother. On the memorial which he erected over her remains he described her as " the careful, tender mother of many children,...of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." In a corner of his room there was a trunk containing the carefully folded dresses of his dead mother,...

...placed this 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. Poetry," and " The Bard." In the year 1756, he left Peter House, and "migrated" to Pembroke Hall, where...

...that he seldom mentioned her without a sigh. The inscription which he placed over her grave describes her as " the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom had the misfortune to survive her.'' He was buried by her side, according to his own directions. The...