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Robert Blair byl skotský básník, jedna z vůdčích osobností tzv. hřbitovní školy.

Byl prvorozeným synem kněze Roberta Blaira, jednoho z královských kaplanů, narodil se v Edinburghu. Studoval na University of Edinburgh a v Nizozemí, v roce 1731 se přestěhoval do Athelstanefordu v East Lothian. V roce 1738 si vzal Isabellu Lawovou, dceru profesora Williama Lawa. Rodinné bohatství mu umožnilo věnovat se svým zálibám, totiž zahradničení a studiu anglické poezie.

Jeho jediné dílo, báseň The Grave , psaná v blankversu, je velmi ponurá a nekonvenční. Její náboženské téma nepochybně přispělo k její velké oblibě, zejména ve Skotsku. Má 767 veršů různé úrovně, v některých pasážích vyzní velmi důstojně a velkolepě, v jiných je velmi frázovitá. Báseň inspirovala Williama Blakea k sérii dvanácti ilustrací, které byly vydány v roce 1808. Wikipedia

✵ 17. duben 1699 – 4. únor 1746

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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.”

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Robert Blair The Grave

Part I, line 417.
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“Of joys departed,
Not to return, how painful the remembrance!”

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Part I, line 109.
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“The Schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand,
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.”

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Part I, line 58. Compare: "Whistling to keep myself from being afraid", John Dryden, Amphitryon Act iii, scene 1.
The Grave (1743)

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

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Part I, line 88.
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“The good he scorn'd
Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,
Not to return; or if it did, in visits
Like those of angels, short and far between.”

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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.”

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Referring to suicides in Hell. Attributed to Lamb, but not found in his works.
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“The Grave, dread thing!
Men shiver when thou 'rt named: Nature, appall'd,
Shakes off her wonted firmness.”

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Part I, line 9.
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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.”

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Part I, line 398.
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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.”

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Part II, line 449.
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