 | 1854 - 398 oldal
...himself. Somewhat sobered by these threats, Pctruchio bethought himself of the advice of Hudibras : "He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." So, heedless of the strangeness of his dress, he instantly slipt down the back stairs, and sought refuge... | |
 | 1854 - 542 oldal
...superciliously through her glass. ' Well, Maurice,' said the doctor, ' returned from the wars, I see — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Do you remember the old couplet of Pindar's V ' That is not Peter Pindar's, sir; you are quoting from... | |
 | Where - 1855 - 86 oldal
...felt a wound. Romeoand Juliet, actii, scene 2. SHAKEN 1 Hide your diminished rays. Third Moral Es. He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he who is in battle slain Will never live to fight again.1 Musarum Delicice, 1656. MENNIS AND SMITH.... | |
 | 1856 - 436 oldal
...the only true philosophy. There is no Chinese soldier who has it not already as a principle— "That he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day;" and who does not believe that, under existing circumstances, this is the only course open to a rational... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1857 - 530 oldal
...that Sir John Minnes is not even the original author of the Hudibrastically sounding assertion — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." The lines in Hudibras are as the perfecting and comment on the above, remarking as they do — " For... | |
 | John Russell (author of Alfred Barton.) - 1858 - 394 oldal
...Garcino did not attempt to retaliate. No, he acted under a better — to his taste — standing rule, " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain, Will never live to fight again." and had at length slipped the bolt,... | |
 | Sir Vivian Dering Majendie - 1859 - 394 oldal
...amount of resolution, we might have had some trouble in taking ; but Pandy, ever true to the maxim that "he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day," had, as I have before said, made his exit directly we approached. The 1st Bengal Fusiliers were left... | |
 | Charles W. Thomas, Chas. W. Thomas - 1860 - 492 oldal
...the water by the natives. The party on shore was in great disorder, and remembering the adage that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," took to their heels, leaving the field-piece to the enemy, and went into town at the rate of a great... | |
 | Thomas Lowe - 1860 - 426 oldal
...Joshua. At Dhar there was much to favour the escape of an enemy who chose to apply the adage, — " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day." Our force was, in reality, very small to effect the reduction of such a stronghold ; we were lamentably... | |
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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. 
