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 - Էջ 311851Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| 1914 - 412 էջ
...beispiel zu nehuien, Gray's inschrift auf dem grabe seiner im alter von 67 jabren gestorbenen mutter: "the careful tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her" selbst im Lichte des 18. jabrhunderts gesehen weiter nicbts zu sein als eine der mode jener in geistreicher... | |
| Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1915 - 678 էջ
...the church. The touching epitaph on the tomb, written by the poet himself, describes Mrs. Gray as the 'tender Mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her'. The little church (printed description, 4<Z.) is dedicated to St. Giles and dates in its present form... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1916 - 136 էջ
...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 n, 1753, aged sixty-seven." No testimony of the interment of Gray in the same tomb... | |
| Findlay Muirhead - 1918 - 692 էջ
...E. wall of the church (tablet) is the tomb of Gray's mother, bearing an epitaph by him commemorating her as the " careful, tender Mother of many children,...one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her " ; and here the poet himself rests. Gray's ' Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College ' is said to... | |
| 1943 - 574 էջ
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| Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1908 - 1356 էջ
...moet tenderly attached to her, and placed upon her tomb en inscription to the 'careful tender 467 Gray 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 thun cordiality,... | |
| Eugene Mason - 1925 - 256 էջ
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| Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 էջ
...comprehensive reason. I allude to the conclusion of the epitaph upon his mother, where he says, ' she was the careful tender mother of many children, one of whom 'alone had the misfortune to survive her '. This is a searching thought, but wholly out of place. Had it been said pf an idiot, of a palsied... | |
| Helen Keller - 1929 - 420 էջ
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