Handel, whose seraphic music lifts us to the gate of heaven, and
whose faith was so clear that when he was dying, on Good Friday,
said that his wish was fulfilled, and that he looked forward to
meeting his good God, his sweet Lord and Savior, on Easter day,
was yet a man with a very earthly, irritable temper--so much so
that he had a quarrel with a brother composer which ended in a
duel.
(717)
=Defense=--See RESISTANCE.