Skill, knowledge of mankind, ineffable unhesitating villany, combination of movement and combination of means, are with our adversary.

We can only fight like mastiffs--boldly, blindly, and faithfully.

I am almost driven to the pass of the Covenanters, when they told the Almighty in their prayers He should no longer be their God; and I really believe a few Gazettes more will make me turn Turk or infidel.'[4] [3] Lucubrations = meditative studies.

It has since deteriorated in meaning.
[4] Lockhart's 'Life of Scott,' vol.iii.pp.

260-1 (edition, 1856).
What WORDSWORTH'S own feelings and impulses were in the composition of the 'Convention of Cintra' are revealed with unwonted as fine passion in his 'Letters and Conversations' (vol.iii.pp.