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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 The Grave

Part I, line 417.
The Grave (1743)

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

Robert Blair The Grave

Part I, line 109.
The Grave (1743)

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

Robert Blair The Grave

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!”

Robert Blair The Grave

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.”

Robert Blair The Grave

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 The Grave

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.”

Robert Blair The Grave

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.”

Robert Blair The Grave

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.”

Robert Blair The Grave

Part II, line 449.
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