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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 Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, Volume 2

Samuel Butler - 1835 - 328 pages
...serviceable : And therefore I, with reason, chose This stratagem t'amuse our foes 210 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 245 Of conduct in the martial art, By which some...
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Harrison's monthly collection [Formerly The monthly collection of tales. Ed ...

708 pages
...or two passages of similar ideas, the nearest of which is in Book iii. Canto iii. verse 243 ; — " For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain," but not those above. Bonitas. — Oh ! my Sparkle, the other lines occur also ; else...
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The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hammersmith: Interspersed with ...

Thomas Faulkner - Hammersmith (England) - 1839 - 486 pages
...Fuller's Worthies, Midd. p. 169 ; Whitelocke's Memorials, p. 64 ; Godwin's Commonwealth, vol. ip 74. b For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. HUDIBRAS, p. Ill, c. 111. 1.243. liament to assemble a sufficient force to prevent his entrance into...
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The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright].

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...Can never rise to fight again," are 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." Par. iii. Cant. 3, 1. 243.— C. 1 At the coronation, Lord Talbot, as lord steward,...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous ..., Volume 4

Horace Walpole - 1840 - 540 pages
...Can never rise to fight again," are 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." Par. iii. Cant. 3, 1. 243.— C. 1 At the coronation, Lord Talbot, as lord steward,...
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Leçons et modèles de poésie française; or, Choice selections from the best ...

Charles Jean Delille - 1841 - 474 pages
...pour la prose, et depuis Malherbe * " In Butler's Hudibras, Part iii. canto iii. 1. 243, we find ' For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain.' The following Unes, ' For he that fights and runs away Will live to fight another day...
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The letters of Horace Walpole, [ed. by J. Wright].

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...Can never rise to fight again," are 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." Par. iii. Cant 3, I. 243.— C. b At the coronation, Lord Talbot, as lord steward, appeared on horseback...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole: 1759-1769

Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...Can never rise to fight again," are not in Hudibras. Butler has the same thought in two lines — u For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain." Par. iii. Cant . 3, 1. 243.— C. e A young Scotch officer, of the name of Forbes, fastened a quarrel...
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Racine and the French classical drama

Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (baronne.) - 1845 - 490 pages
...English reader will scarcely fail to call to mind that popular speech of the famous Squire's — " For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain." " See the whole speech in Part III., Canto III. found some of Moliere's finest tirades....
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1858 - 682 pages
...the work (Part in. canto iii. ver. 243.) where a similar passage occur? in the later editions : — " For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain." The first edition of Part I. is dated 1663, but that it was published in December, 1662, we learn from...
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