 | Oliver MacAllester - 1767 - 554 σελίδες
...Hudibraftic principles, often experienced, proved, and practifed amongft the French themfelves, That he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that is in battle jlain, Can never rife to fight again : Confians foon quitted the engagement,... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1804 - 242 σελίδες
...preparing himself to give Learherhead a most terrible threshing, had he not yielded) still, ' He who fights and runs away, ' May live to fight another day ;' and the Doctor escaping with a whole skin is now left alive and mighty to assail the supporters of Perkinism... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1806 - 326 σελίδες
...preparing himself to give Leatherhead a most terrible threshing, had he not yielded) still " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ;" and the doctor escaping with a whole skin is now left alive and mighty to assail the supporters of Perkinism... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1808 - 142 σελίδες
...partbf 4 The better part of valour is discretion. Old saying, which the poet thus explains : " For he that fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that is in battle slain, Can never live to fight again ;" an idea for which he was indebted... | |
 | 1817 - 376 σελίδες
...retreated with the rest without striking a blow. It has commonly been imagined that the lines — " For he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," attributed by Mr. Cunningham and Dr. Rimbault to Mennis, were to be found in this poem, but they form... | |
 | 1827 - 574 σελίδες
...they are supposed to be taken. Every one has heard, seen, and perhaps quoted the famous lines — " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that fights until he's slain, Will never live to fight again." These were long attributed... | |
 | 1828 - 396 σελίδες
...resisted ; but actually fled away before the resistance commenced. However; it is an old maxim, that " he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day." Again. We are told the devil was a liar from the beginning." Now you were called upon in my former... | |
 | John Galt - 1833 - 416 σελίδες
...shape of rust ; the pistol missed fire, and I gallantly rode away without remembering the distich, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day j" calling on Munroe to follow, which he did, leaving servants and baggage, " with all the evidences... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1833 - 386 σελίδες
...St. Peters, he found his naval heroes in great safety, who seem to have acted on the old proverb, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." He had a more narrow escape for his life, one evening at St. Aubin's, in the island of Jersey. A desperate... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1834 - 1130 σελίδες
...J(ohn) M(ennis) and Ja(mes¡ S(mith). London, 1656. 12mo. Pp. 101. In this volume are the lines' For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day' which have been generally supposed to form a part of Hudibras. Hibbert, 5320, II Bibl. Anglo-Poet.... | |
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For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again. 
