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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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The American Bibliopolist, Volume 6

American literature - 1874 - 414 pages
...added in edition of 1674.) And in Part 3, Cm iii., lines 241, &c., we have : " To make an honorable retreat And wave a total sure defeat : For those that...fight again, Which he can never do that's slain." A question then arises on the point to who first used the lines as usually quoi (the sentiment being...
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The American Bibliopolist, Volumes 6-7

American literature - 1874 - 992 pages
...added in tl edition of 1674.) And in Part 3, Can iii., lines 241, &c., we have : " 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 sliin." A question then arises on the point to who first used the lines as usually yustt (the sentiment...
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English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a ..., Volume 3

Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - 1874 - 598 pages
...13.). Which alone can, as relative, refer back to other members of the sentence and to whole sentences. For those that fly may fight again, which he can never do that's slain (BuTL., Hud. 3, 3, 243.). Martin Chuzzlewit signed to his young companion to withdraw, which she immediately...
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Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange ...

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...ROCHEFOUCAULD : ifax. 430. The same idea may be found in the Adelphi of TERENCE, Act V fie. 2, v. 1-4. For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. — ffudibrai* Ho who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. — SIR JOHN MINNES. •...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...man, that runnith awaie, Maie again fight an other dale. Erasmus, Apothegms, Trans, by Udall, 1542. For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain. Butler, Hudibras, Part iii. Canto 3. He that fights and runs away May turn and fight...
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Captain Jack; or, Old Fort Duquesne

Charles McKnight - Fort Duquesne (Pa.) - 1874 - 532 pages
...— out of the jaws of death into the mouth of hell. CHAPTER L. TALBOT AND SMITH— FORT REJOICINGS. 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'S Hudibras....
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Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...ROCHEFOUCAULD : Max. 430. The same idea may be found in the Adelphi of TERENCE, Act VSc 2, v. 1-4. ' For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. — Hudibras. He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. — SIR JOHN MINNES. * Mirabeau's...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...the Human. Ah me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! BUTLER : Hudibras. 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: Hudibras. No martial project...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...True as the needle to the pole Or as the dial to the sun. Barton Booth, Song. Hudibras continued ] For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain.1 Part iii. Canto iii. Line 243. He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion...
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The Rudiments of English Grammar and Composition

James Hamblin Smith - English language - 1876 - 184 pages
...a piece of bread, which he ate, Defoe which introduces a co-ordinate sentence : and in the distich For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain, Butler that introduces an adjectival, which a co-ordinate sentence. 149. Adjectival sentences are also...
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