The poet, whose name is Deor, has experienced the fallaciousness of early success.
"Anglo-Saxon Literature"
John Earle
For the fourteen hundred million francs which France had expended in the war, she had the satisfaction of detaching the American colonies from England, thus inflicting a blow which it was confidently hoped would prove fatal to the maritime power of her ancient rival; but beyond this short-lived satisfaction, the fallaciousness of which events were soon to show, she obtained very little.
"The Critical Period of American History"
John Fiske
Blackstone, the great authority of the eighteenth century, set forth this theory of the division of power between King, Lords, and Commons with clearness and force, and nobody then understood English history minutely or thoroughly enough to see its fallaciousness.
"The Critical Period of American History"
John Fiske