 | James Hogg - 1819 - 456 pagina’s
...to be right, and which others, perhaps, only thought wrong as it proved unsuccessful. " Treason does never prosper. What's the reason ? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." I have in no instance puzzled myself in deciding what reading of each song is the most genuine and... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1894 - 478 pagina’s
...the Radclifies in the Rebellion of 1712 is so well known that it need not here be recapitulated. " Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason ? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." In 1716 the Hon. Wm. Radcliffe, uncle to James, Earl of Derwentwater, deceased, was seized in fee of... | |
 | 1831 - 600 pagina’s
...Washington or Kosciusko. Thus true after all U the remark, altering a word from Sir John Hariugtoa— Treason doth never prosper— what's the reason ? For if it prosper, none would call it Treason. 1 We take this opportunity to request authors who wish notices of their works... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1845 - 364 pagina’s
...in private) of the poor exile's generous sincerity and patriotic high-mindedness. (2) Stanza 14. — "Treason doth never prosper : what's the reason ? " For, if it prosper none dare call it treason." So says Sir John Harrington ; and, without asserting that it was morally or physically possible for... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pagina’s
...The translation from Ariosto is poor and prosaic, but some of Ms epigrams are pointed. Of Treason. f their place and room, Aristotle, Plato, Tully, and Demosthenes, whom good M. Redman, and th Of Fortune. Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any. Against... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pagina’s
...The translation from Ariosto is poor and prosaic, but some of his epigrams are pointed. Of T<-easm. f th' incensed state, In whose defiance it was worn, Still ready to be pnll'd and torn ; With Of Fortune. Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any. Against... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1857 - 1022 pagina’s
...love triumph la the doe of death. much for the truth it teaches, though it comes from England : — " Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason ? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason !" " Where did you learn this folly ? " said the Baron, half angry — half laughing "Folly! it's the... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pagina’s
...ne'er so tame, so cherished, and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors. — Shakspere. Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? For if it prosper none dare call it treason. Sir John Harrington. By heav'n, there 's treason in his aspect ! That cheerless gloom, those eyea that pore... | |
 | Watts Phillips - 1860 - 328 pagina’s
...right. I remember an epigram worth much for the truth it teaches, though it comes from England : — " Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason ? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason !" " Where did you 'earn this folly ?" said the Baron, half angry — half laughing. great, Lamartine... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pagina’s
...sun, Who still looks fairest at his going down. Alcibiades, Act iv. Scene III. — T. OTWAY. TREASON. Treason doth never prosper ; what's the reason ? For if it prosper none dare call it treason. Epigrams by SIR JOHN HARRINGTON. Treason, how dark art thou ? In shapes more various than e'er Proteus... | |
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Treason doth never prosper ; what's the reason ? For if it prosper none dare call it treason. 
