 | 1851 - 568 pages
...from the delusion (such I must ever regard it) of Mr. Fox and his party, that a safe and honorable peace was practicable with the French nation, and that an ambitious conqueror like Bonaparte could be softened down into a commercial rival." Memoirs, vol. ii. pp. 23, 24. Wordsworth's... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 564 pages
...reflection. If I were addressing those who have dwelt so liberally with the words renegade, apostate, &c., I should retort the charge, upon them, and say, you...Buonaparte could be softened down into a commercial rival. ' In a determination, therefore, to aim at the overthrow of that inordinate ambition by war, I sided... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 540 pages
...the war against France at its commencement, thinking, which was perhaps, an error, that it might hav^ been avoided ; but after Buonaparte had violated the...Buonaparte could be softened down into a commercial rival. ' In a determination, therefore, to aim at the overthrow of that inordinate ambition by war, I sided... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 540 pages
...reflection. If I were addressing those who have dealt so liberally with the words renegade, apostate, &c., I should retort the charge upon them, and say, you...Buonaparte could be softened down into a commercial rival. In a determination, therefore, to aim at the overthrow of that inordinate ambition by war, I sided... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 544 pages
...&c., I should retort the charge upon them, and say, you have been deluded by places 0 Memoirs, ii. 22. and persons, while I have stuck to principles. I abandoned...Buonaparte could be softened down into a commercial rival. In a determination, therefore, to aim at the overthrow of that inordinate ambition by war, I sided... | |
 | William Hale White - 1898 - 86 pages
...reflection. If I were addressing those who have dealt so liberally with the words renegade, apostate, &c., I should retort the charge upon them, and say, you...Buonaparte could be softened down into a commercial rival." I think we must now admit that, so far as the French Revolution was concerned, Wordsworth did not turn... | |
 | William Hale White - 1898 - 80 pages
...could submit to be the instrument ' Knight, Life of William Wordsworth, 1889, vol. iii. pp. 58, 59. of such an outrage. Here it was that I parted, in...Buonaparte could be softened down into a commercial rival." I think we must now admit that, so far as the French Revolution was concerned, Wordsworth did not turn... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1907 - 546 pages
...Whigs, and to a certain degree united with their adversaries, who were free from the delusion (such as I must ever regard it) of Mr Fox and his party that...Buonaparte could be softened down into a commercial rival. TO WALTER SAVAGE LANDOB RYDAL MOUNT, near AMBLESIDE, September 3d, 1821. ... I feel myself much honoured... | |
 | Kurt Lienemann - 1908 - 276 pages
...Vergewaltigung der Schweiz durch Napoleon und die Franzosen sei er von den Whigs zu den Tories übergegangen '-who were free from the delusion (such I must ever...Buonaparte could be softened down into a commercial rival" (1821 L II 163). M. Cove (1753 — 1830): Essay on the revenues of the church of England 1797 (Cat).... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - 1917 - 152 pages
...consistent ; it is well given in his own language : ' I disapproved of the war', he writes, in 1821, 'against France at its commencement, thinking— which...Buonaparte could be softened down into a commercial rival.' 2 The following words of subtle criticism are full of meaning; they point to an undoubted fact which... | |
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I disapproved of the war against France at its commencement, thinking, which was, perhaps, an error, that it might have been avoided ; but after Buonaparte had violated the independence of Switzerland, my heart turned against him, and against the nation... 
