 | Samuel Butler - 1850 - 528 pages
...serviceable : And therefore I, with reason, chose This stratagem I " amuse our foes, 840 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 slaiu.t Hence timely running 's no mean part 245 Of conduct, in the martial art, By which some... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 524 pages
...The passage, as it really stands in Hudibras (book iii. canto iii. verse 243.), is as follows : — " For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain." But there is a much earlier authority for those lines than the Musarum Delicts; a fact which I learn... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 312 pages
...serviceable : And therefore I, with reason, chose This stratagem, t' amuse our foes, 240 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. Hence timely running 's no mean part Of conduct in the martial art ; By which some glorious... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1854 - 318 pages
...serviceable : And therefore I, with reason, chose This stratagem, t' amuse our foes, 240 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. Hence timely running 's no mean part Of conduct in the martial art ; By which some glorious... | |
 | Where - 1855 - 86 pages
...first gathered and compiled in latin by ERASMUS, and now translated into Engliche by NICHOLAS VDALL. For those that fly may fight again Which he can never do that's slain. Hudibras. BUTLER. 2 Aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus. HORACE. Nor is it Homer nods, but we who dream.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Line 175. True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 243. For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.* * That same man that runnith awaie, Male again fight an other dale. — ERASMUS. He that fights and... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 800 pages
...limit of three days, and from that time has gradually declined. In a note on the well-known couplet, For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain, the editor has collected the largest amount of annotation and illustration that has ever been brought... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...more usual than to see a hero weeping and quibbling for a dozen lines together. — Addismt. CCLXIV. 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,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...more usual than to see a hero weeping and quibbling for a dozen lines together. — Addisoti. CCLXIV. Those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. Hence timely running's no mean part t Of conduct, in the martial art, By which some glorious feats... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 444 pages
...The passage, as it really stands in Hudibras (book iii. canto iii. verse 243), is as follows : — For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. But there is a much earlier authority for these lines than the Musarum Deliciw ; a fact which I learn... | |
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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. 
