 | Eyre Hussey - English fiction - 1906 - 356 pages
...from the days of Menander had noted the wisdom of retreat on certain or uncertain occasions. 1 Foi those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.' I was glad to find my young friend Mr. Royds took the same view." "Did Morty Thompson run away also... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...within himself, A man's worth something, — R, BROWNING, Bishop Blougram's Apology, lines 699, 700 For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain.2 BUTLER, Hudibras, III, iii, lines 243, 244 1General Sir John Moore, killed in the battle... | |
 | Clara Leonora Nicolay - 1910 - 152 pages
...ran away and fly Take plr.ce at least o' the enemy." 11. 609-10, part I, canto III, p. 106, and: " For those that fly may fight again Which he can never do that's slain." 11. 293-4, part III, canto III, p. 403. (Hudibras by Samuel Butler, edited by Henry G. Bohn ; Bell,... | |
 | Walter William Skeat - Proverbs, English - 1910 - 190 pages
...(Well fights he who well flies.) Wel fight that wel flight, seith the wise. Owl and Nightingale, 176. For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain. Butler, Hudibras, pt. iii, c. 3. 243. And see no. 136. 73 Tel thou neuer thy fo that... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No second stroke intend. 295 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 711 Those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.1 296 "Butler: Uudibras. Pt. iii. Canto iii. Line 243 When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the... | |
 | Alma Blount, Clark Sutherland Northup - English language - 1914 - 400 pages
...fall: which fate Heaven forfend. a. Which may have for its antecedent a clause or a part of a clause. Those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. — BUTLER, Hudibras iii. 3. 242-3. See also the example above under Section 194. NOTE. — Which rarely... | |
 | Sarah Grand - 1916 - 698 pages
...telling play with for another purpose : " ' He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.' " Mr. Harkles glowed with self-satisfaction after this effort. His aptitude surprised him; also it... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - Authors, English - 1917 - 690 pages
...being cheated as to cheat, As lookers-on take most delight Who least perceive a juggler's sleight." " For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain." " He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still." " Rather than fail, they will defy... | |
 | John William Hey Atkins, Nicholas de Guildford - 1922 - 342 pages
...Chaucer, Pari. o/ F. ( 140) , " Theschewing is only the remedye," and Butler, Httdibrat, in. 3. 243: For those that fly may fight again Which he can never do that's slain. 177. lete we awei = "\et us refrain from," cf. also i. 250. The idiom is found in OE aweg Iff ton:... | |
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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. 
