"Disenchanted" because they found that freedom, peace, and virtue were not to be secured by mere proclamation; and that all Europe was not ready at the call of the revolutionists to abolish prescriptive rights and establish republican forms of society.
In January 1793 Louis XVI was beheaded.

The act was followed pretty promptly by a coalition of England, Holland, Spain, Naples, and the German states against the Republic.
36--*Yet still my voice*.

In "Religious Musings," 1794-6, and more ardently in the parts that he contributed to Southey's "Joan of Arc," 1796.
42--*Britain's name*.

England was from the beginning the centre of resistance to the violence and ambition of revolutionary France; and Pitt, who controlled English policy in these years, was looked upon as a cold-blooded agent of tyranny by the French republicans and their English sympathizers.
44--*sweet music of deliverance*.

The French were so convinced that their Revolution marked the beginning of a new era in human affairs that they determined to have a new chronology.