...t 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 years later that Wordsworth himself told Crabb Robinson, I have no respect whatever for Whigs, but I have a great deal of the Chartist in me. In 1802, during his tour in Scotland, he travelled on Sundays as on the other days ...