...confidence, betide her friend and sister, sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful and tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her. She died March 7th, 1755, aged 09." Many have expressed surprise not only at the alwence of an epitaph,...

...most tenderly attached to her, and placed upon her tomb on 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 than cordiality,...

...inschrift auf dem grabe seiner im alter von 67 Jahren gestorbenen mutter: "the careful tender motlier of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her" selbst im Lichte des 18. Jahrhunderts gesehen weiter nichts zu sein als eine der mode jener in geistreicher...

...attacks the female sex. The epitaph which the poet caused to be engraved upon her monument describes her as ' the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone kad the misfortune to survive her '; but the strongest proof of his affection is the celebrated passage...