French Revolution

Wordsworth’s take on the French revolution cast in doubt by a French corpus n-gram

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

Wordsworth on the revolution “as it appeared to enthusiasts at its commencement”: Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy! For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood Upon our side, we who were strong in love! Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, Bu…

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