Note HX — 1820 (continued 2)
Reading edition
"Nearly 500 years (says Ebel, speaking of the French Invasion) had elapsed, when, for the first time, foreign Soldiers were seen upon the frontiers of this small Canton, to impose upon it the laws of their Governors."—W. W. 1822.
Compare the phraseology of Wordsworth's line with a sentence in Dorothy's Journal, given below.—Ed.