...whose memory he wrote this touching inscription : — " 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, Age 07." I was copying this inscription, using the flat top of the tomb for...

...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." Walpole has remarked that Gray was " in flower" during the years 1750-1755. "The Ode on the Pleasure...

...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 LXXII." No testimony of the interment of Gray in the same tomb was inscribed...

...the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." Given the circumstances and, so to speak, the sense, how many people could have produced such an ideal...

...confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." His mother's death left Gray with a sufficient competence to enable him to live on at Cambridge in...

...on which grave the children found these words : — HERB SLEEP THE REMAINS OF DOROTHY GRAY, WIDOW, THE CAREFUL, TENDER MOTHER OF MANY CHILDREN, ONE OF WHOM ALONE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO SURVIVE HER. Stoke Pogis. where Gray is buried. " It gets its name from two families which were united in marriage...

...who passed beyond infancy out of a family of twelve. " The careful, tender mother," he calls her, " of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." A letter to Walpole, written two months before her death, mentions her illness, and also tells us something...

...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 J uly, 1771 ; and in his will he left explicit...

...still be'read with ease: " 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 11th, 1753." Eighteen years later, following Gray's expressed wish, his remains were...

...the author of the " Elegy " and his mother, which he touchingly inscribed before his own death, to "the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her." At the left is a noble " yew-tree's shade," and beneath it good part of the immortal poem was written....