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An ingenious magazine-writer, who lived in the time of Mr. Brock and the Duke of Marlborough, compared the latter gentleman's conduct in battle, when he
"In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, / To fainting squadrons lent the timely aid; / Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, / And taught the doubtful battle where to rage" --