 | 1865 - 1120 oldal
...ix." (To be continued.) WD MACRAY. Proctor at Oxford in 14CO. HUDIBRASTIC COUPLET. (3rd S. iv. p. 61.) The famed couplet — " For he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," — •which caused the wits of Brooks's Club, in 1784, to wrangle over their wine and to bet about... | |
 | Alexander Morrison Stewart - 1865 - 450 oldal
...therewith. We all seemed suddenly to feel the force and propriety of that soldierly epigram : "That, he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." A retreat was determined on. The rebels being in strong force in front, in our rear, and upon our left,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 oldal
...BUTLER. Hudibras. Part iii. Canto 3. From the Art of Poetry on a New Plan. Edited by OLIVER GOLDSMITH. For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. Sed omissis quidem divinia exhortationibus,... | |
 | Charles Wheeler Denison - 1865 - 336 oldal
...galleries to be admired by the eyes of the loathed 'Yankees,' acting on the impulse of the old distich : " He who fights, and runs away, May live to fight — another day." It was rumored that Mr. DAVIS, the President of the so-called Southern Confederacy, and the rebel Generals... | |
 | Thomas Archer (historical writer.) - 1866 - 128 oldal
...is, and so we have time to get ready either to fight or run, or perhaps both, for you know : — ' He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. ' " " Don't make a jest of it," said poor little Mus ; " that is our enemy, the chief of the Feline... | |
 | Enguerrand de Monstrelet - 1867 - 580 oldal
...of other captains, and English gentlemen bearing coats of arms. Conformably to the old proverb, of " He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day," did those act who fled and left their companions to bear the brunt of * Trcvieres, — « market-town... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 oldal
...Butler, Hud. 1, n.831Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose, Gay, Fable 34. He who fights and runs away. May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again." Goldsmith, Art of Poetry. The combat... | |
 | Colonist - 1867 - 220 oldal
...yarding of a drove or mob of wild cattle. Mr. Ryan surveyed it at a little distance remembering " that he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day." Certainly this beat all the excitement of fox-hunting and taking the brush in England. This was real... | |
 | 1868 - 808 oldal
...confess it at once — a pair of legs of wonderful capacity to verify the truth of the lines, that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." The battle is daily renewed : its guerdon is nothing less than life or death. The diminutive champion... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 oldal
...BUTLER. Hudibras. Partiu. Canto 3. From the Art of Poetry on a new Plan. Edited by OLIVER GOLDSMITH. For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.* From the Abridgement of the Chronicles... | |
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For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. 
