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But not everyone felt as blissfully as Wordsworth.
不過并不是所有人都像華茲華斯這般喜悅。
Edmund Burke, the eloquent Irish MP who'd been a militant friend of the Americans, now had a change of heart about revolution.
埃德蒙·柏克，雄辯的愛爾蘭議員，美國人激進的朋友，改變了對革命的態度。
He, too, had lifted a glass to toast the dawn of liberty in July 1789.
他也舉杯，慶賀1789年7月自由的開端。
But when the lynching started, Burke decided the revolution was, above all, an act of violence, and he denounced it in his vitriolic "Reflections on the French Revolution".
但當私刑開始出現，柏克發現革命其實是暴力行為，并在《法國大革命反思》中作出尖銳的抨擊。
Amidst assassination, massacre and confiscation, perpetrated or meditated, they are forming plans for the "Good order" of future society.
參雜在刺殺之中是蓄意的屠殺和充公，他們在為未來社會的"良好秩序"謀劃。
They act amidst the tumultuous cries of a mixed mob of ferocious men and women, lost to shame.
他們行跡于高聲喊叫的各色暴民中，不知羞恥。
It's hard to know which was more painful the fact that Burke's savage denunciation came from an erstwhile friend of liberty and reform,
很難說哪一個更令人不快，是來自柏克昔日自由改良之友憤怒的譴責，
or that it flung back into the teeth of radicals some of the mushier platitudes about nature.
還是激進分子們嘲笑的一些有關自然感傷的陳詞濫調。
They had taken it as rage that nature filled your buzzle with the love of mankind, that nature was fraternal, was cosmopolitan.
他們絲毫不認為自然賦予人們人性之愛，自然是兄弟般友好的。
"Rubbish!" Said Burke. "Nature is rooted in place. It teaches you to love your birthplace. Your language, your customs, your habits. Nature is a patriot."
“廢話！”柏克說道。“自然在恰當的地方扎根。它教導你熱愛自己的故鄉。語言、風俗和習慣。它是愛國者。”
What Burke hated most of all was the naivety of well-meaning Whig politicians, like his friend Charles James Fox,
柏克最痛恨的是善良的輝格黨政客們不知世事的天真，如同他朋友查爾斯·詹姆斯·福克斯，
putting a few slogans into the heads of people not educated enough to understand what they were wrecking.
把一些口號加之于民眾身上，而民眾所受教育不足以理解其破壞的東西。
"Democracy? Mob-ocracy, more like!" Said Burke.
“這不是民主？更像是民暴！”柏克說。
Heads stuck on pikes, the law of the lynch mob, we don't want that here.
長矛上挑著的人頭，私刑暴民的法令，我們不希望這些在此發生。
