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...poet Gray, author of the famous "Elegy," on the tomb of his mother whom he called "the careful and tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." It is, I think, in one of his letters that he writes : — " We may have many friends but only one...

...sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tenLOCOMOTION OF LONDON. 349 der mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her. She died March n, 1753, aged 67." Eighteen years after the death of the mother, the gifted son was...

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...the same pious confidence, beside her buried 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." A few days later he writes : — " In company with Leslie, the painter, visited Mr. Rogers's house,...

...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...