... main safeguard of vigorous selfconscious-ness in a nation. He became a Tory through intellectual conviction, retaining, I suspect, to the last, a certain radicalism of temperament and instinct. Haydon tells us that in 1809 Sir George Beaumont said to him and Wilkie, Wordsworth may perhaps walk in; if he do, I caution you both against his terrific democratic notions; and it must have been many year...