Note 132 — Chapter V · ROMANTIC MORALITY: THE REAL
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Addison writes:
’Twas then great Marlbro’s mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of changing hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examin’d all the dreadful scenes of war; In peaceful thought the field of death survey’d.
So far as Marlborough deserved this praise he was a general in the grand manner.