...acre. The little church! How fine is Gray's inscription upon his mother's tomb! '.' "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, " misfortune to survive her! " Upon Gray's own tomb there is inscribed:...

...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...

...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 11, 1753, aged sixty-seven. Of Gray himself, though he rests in the same tomb, no word...

...from a son to his mother! 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 72. No more fitting spot than this could be found for a poet's last resting...

...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. During subsequent visits to West-End Cottage, Gray's life was more than usually monotonous. The summer...

...the poet lost the mother to whom he was deeply indebted, and whom he so fondly loved. On her tomb he speaks of her as " the careful tender mother of many...of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." Gray died in 1771 and was buried by his own desire (expressed in his will) by the side of his mother,...

...deserted her ; and, at her death, Gray/ placed on her grave, in Stoke Poges, 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,...

...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., MDCCLIU. Aged LXXII. — STODDARD, RICHARD HENRY, 1874, British Authors, Scribner's...

...mother died at Stoke, at the age of sixty-seven. In the inscription which he placed on her tomb, Gray speaks of her as "the careful tender mother of many...one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her. ' ' This tribute, beautiful in itself, well indicates the depth of Gray's devotion to his mother; and...

...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 n, 1753, aged 67. Neither his mother nor his aunts were ever aware that he wrote in...