 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1886 - 304 pages
...therefore I, with reason, chose This stratagem to amuse our foes, To make an honourable retreat, And waive a total sure defeat : For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. Hence timely running's no mean part Of conduct, in the martial art, By which some glorious feats achieve,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1886 - 582 pages
...though usually attributed to him, that poet's rendering of the idea being given in two lines, thus — " For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain." Hudibras, part ii. cant. 3, the above four, and perhaps really the beet known, lines were a paraphrase... | |
 | Education - 1886 - 996 pages
...for forming the possessive of plural nouns. 7. Analyze : They never fail who die in a just cause. 8. For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. What is the antecedent of which? What does that's slain modify ? 9. Correct, if necessary, and give... | |
 | Richard Halkett - American literature - 1887 - 588 pages
...similar; the one that comes nearest is the following in Hudibras, book iii., canto ¡u., verse 243,— " For those that fly, may fight again. Which he can never do that's slam." The fact is ttat tbe couplet, as generally quoted first occurs in the Musarum Delicite of Sir... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - Medical education - 1888 - 304 pages
...stop our breath. Other joys are but toys, and to be lamented/ CHAPTER XXIV. THE SCHOOL OF HUMANITY. For those that fly may fight again. Which he can never do that's slain ; Hence timely running's no mean part Of conduct in the martial art. — Butler. THE Divine origin... | |
 | American poetry - 1891 - 734 pages
...serviceable : And therefore I with reason chose This stratagem, t' amuse our foes, To make an honorable retreat, • And wave a total sure defeat : For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain. Hence timely running's no mean part Of conduct in the martial art • • * * • WHEN... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...coward is the kindest animal ; 'Tie the most f jrgiving creature in a fight. Dryden. COWARDICE. EXCUSE FOR. Those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain, Hence timely running's no mean part Of conduct in the martial art. Eutler. COXCOMBS. SELDOM ALONE.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English letters - 1891 - 580 pages
...one of which the ministry had •re not in Hudibras. Butler has the same thought in two lines— " For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain." Part i/t. Cant. 8, 248.—CBOBBB. 1 At the coronation. Lord Talbot, as lord steward, appeared on horseback... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...absolutely a fool !'" Indeed, the nearest approach to the couplet in "Hudibras" is in Book iii., Canto 3 : For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. The sense, of course, is embodied here. Hut then the sense is not Butler's alone, but is shared by... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - English literature - 1892 - 482 pages
...fall no lower. To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched. 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. 132 HISTORY OF ENGLISH L1TERATURE. CHAPTER... | |
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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. 
