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" This stratagem to' amuse our foes, To make an hon'rable retreat, And wave a total sure defeat : For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. "
Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography ... - Page 61
by George Willis - 1855
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A Yearbook of Colonial Times

United States - 1899 - 262 pages
...of God running through all time. BEECHER. January 31 1747 Battle of Minas, Grand Pre\ Nova Scotia. Those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. BUTI.ER. February I 1775 A Provincial Congress met at Philadelphia. Let us have a Government, by which...
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The Living Age, Volume 229

Literature - 1901 - 884 pages
...the current (per) versions of the following passages, especially of the last, will readily occur: — "For those that fly may fight again Which he can never do that's slain." (Ill, ill, 243.) "He that complies against his will IB of his own opinion still." <JW. 547.) Few speakers...
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Dichtung und Volkstum: neue Folge des Euphorion, Zeitschrift für ..., Volume 8

August Sauer, Georg Stefansky, Hermann Pongs, Hans Werner Pyritz - German literature - 1901 - 912 pages
...fttudjt (l, 10; «elliust, i'ogan fief»e Sllbrerfn £. I75ï. SBgl. Sutler, Hudibras III 3, 243 f.: For those that fly, may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. Çitûoai, Bibliothèque 2, .414: Un homme qui avoit respiré l'air de la Garonne . . . prit la fuite...
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English Grammar

Chestine Gowdy - English language - 1901 - 268 pages
...view. 29. This is the reason that I sent for thee. 30. Who venerate themselves, the world despise. 31. For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. 32. Csesar crossed the Rubicon, which was a declaration of war. 33. I gave him a piece of bread, which...
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Proverb Lore: Many Sayings, Wise Or Otherwise, on Many Subjects, Gleaned ...

Frederick Edward Hulme - Proverbs - 1902 - 290 pages
...as " guessing at things through a sieve," § making a mystery of what anyone can see at a glance. " Those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain," we learn in " Hudibras," and the sentiment re-appears in * In France they say, " Clef d'or ouvre toutes...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...ii. Line 175. But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease. Line 443. For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain.8 Canto Hi. Line 243. He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still....
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The Lamp, Volume 26

American literature - 1903 - 462 pages
...In the latter case "the same" is usually substituted for "his own." Another couplet from "Hudibras," For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain, appears in the productions of other authors in varying forms — first of all in an old English translation...
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Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars

Samuel Butler - 1905 - 356 pages
...rally, and prove serviceable. And therefore I with reason chose This Stratagem, t 'amuse our Foes. To make an Honourable Retreat, And wave a total sure...may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. Hence timely Running's no mean part Of Conduft, in the Martial Art. By which some Glorious Feats atchievt,...
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Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars

Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1905 - 356 pages
...To rally, and prove serviceable. And therefore I with reason chose This Stratagem, f amuse our Foes. To make an Honourable Retreat, And wave a total sure...those that fly, may fight again, Which he can never do thafs slain. Hence timely Running's no mean part Of Condutl, in the Martial Art. By which some Glorious...
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English Literature

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1905 - 492 pages
...department, kept, during the first ten years * Example of the Hudibrastic couplet, or distich:— " For those that fly may fight again. Which he can never do that's slain." of the Restoration, a minute Diary in cipher, which was published in 1825, and which, by its interesting...
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