One wonders repeatedly why he bothered, and why he did not turn his obvious abilities to something better, or take his Toryism off to a more promising part of the country. |
Irish Toryism was the dominant political creed down to 1859, at least in terms of Westminster seats. |
But I do not say this, as will be seen in a moment, as a criticism of the comparative Toryism of the South. |
With the current wealth-friendly Labour leadership having adopted something rather similar this is no longer an identifying feature of Toryism. |
It really is addressing people who need help, which is what Toryism should be about. |
Thus Wordsworth shrank back into Toryism, as it were, from a Shelleyan extreme of pantheism as yet disembodied. |