’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.
[133] “Beauty resides in due proportion and order,” says Aristotle (Poetics, ch. VII).
[134] A Survey of English Literature, 1780-1830 (1912), II, 191.
[135] Confucius and the Chinese sages were if anything even more concerned than Plato or Aristotle with the ethical quality of music.
[136] Like Bishop Blougram’s his “interest’s on the dangerous edge of things.”