Robert Blair Quotes

1699 – February 4, 1746

Robert Blair (1699 – 4 February 1746) was a Scottish poet.

The Schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand,Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.

Part I, line 58. Compare: "Whistling to keep myself from being afraid", John Dryden, Amphitryon Act iii, scene 1.

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The Grave, dread thing!Men shiver when thou 'rt named: Nature, appall'd,Shakes off her wonted firmness.

Robert Blair
— Part I, line 9.

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Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul!Sweetener of life! and solder of society!

Robert Blair
— Part I, line 88.

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Of joys departed,Not to return, how painful the remembrance!

Robert Blair
— Part I, line 109.

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But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.

Robert Blair
— Part I, line 398.

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Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd;How long, how short, we know not:—this we know,Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.

Robert Blair
— Part I, line 417.

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The cup goes round:And who so artful as to put it by!'T is long since Death had the majority.

Robert Blair
— Part II, line 449.

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The good he scorn'dStalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,Not to return; or if it did, in visitsLike those of angels, short and far between.

Robert Blair
— Part II, line 586. Compare: "Like angels’ visits, short and bright", John Norris, The Parting.

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The common damn'd shun their society.

Robert Blair
— Referring to suicides in Hell. Attributed to Lamb, but not found in his works.

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The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain.

Robert Blair
— Robert Blair, The Grave, line 185.

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Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave; and, (strange to tell!) Evanishes at crowing of the cock.

Robert Blair
— Robert Blair, The Grave, line 67.

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See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle, Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole A gentle tear.

Robert Blair
— Robert Blair, The Grave, line 451.

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The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

Robert Blair
— Robert Blair, The Grave.

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The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud.

Robert Blair
— Robert Blair, The Grave, line 190.

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But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd And suffer'd to speak out, tells every man, Then must it be an awful thing to die; More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.

Robert Blair
— Robert Blair, The Grave (1743), line 398.

Tags: there, hereafter, conscience, suffer'd, speak, tells, man, Then, awful

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Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not: this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.

Robert Blair
— Robert Blair, The Grave (1743), line 417.

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The common damn'd shun their society.

Robert Blair
— Robert Blair, The Grave (1743), referring to suicides in Hell. Attributed to Lamb, but not found in his works.

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Ye undertakers, tell us, 'Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit, Why is the principal conceal'd, for which You make this mighty stir?

Robert Blair
— Robert Blair, The Grave, line 170.

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Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary shades, Beneath the wan, cold Moon (as Fame reports) Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds. No other merriment, dull tree! is thine.

Robert Blair
— Robert Blair, The Grave, line 22.

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Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff.

Robert Blair
— Robert Blair, The Grave (1743), line 520.

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