 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...printed, one of which the ministry had 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." Part Hi. Caul. 3, 243.—CHOKKK. 1 At the coronation, Lord Talbot, as lord steward, appeared on horseback... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 436 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 Delicice • a fact which I... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 248 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.* • The substance of this couplet is as old as Demosthenes, who, being reproached for running away... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...cultivated the reason young, will be utterly unable to improve it old. Coote. RETREAT-Disoretion of. 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. ßntttr. RETRIBUTION — TJnperceived... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...awav, and fly, Take place at least of th" enemy. HuninRAS.— Part L Canto III. Line 800. And again — For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. HUDIRRAS.— Part III. Canto III. Line 248. MR Collet, however, refers us to a small volume of Poems... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1863 - 588 pages
...superior, having been unhorsed and beaten, very prudently refrain from another encounter, but resolve — " To make an honourable retreat, And wave a total sure defeat ; For those who fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. Hence timely running's no mean part Of... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1864 - 426 pages
...serviceable : And therefore I, with reason, chose This stratagem to' amuse our foes To make an hon'rable retreat, And wave a total sure defeat : For those...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,... | |
 | Henry T. Johns - 1864 - 426 pages
...and though they may not be poets, you find they have a vivid appreciation of Butler, who writes, " 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." " Bullet-fever" is a real fever,... | |
 | rev. Mead Holmes, Mead Holmes - 1854 - 262 pages
...fought like heroes at Perryville. Our heavy loss is sufficient record that we were no skulkers. ' Yet 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,... | |
 | George Hughes Hepworth - African Americans - 1864 - 308 pages
...are disciples of Butler, believing that he was a logician and a philanthropist when he wrote, — " 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." If a man who talks of the war tells... | |
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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. 
