 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 168 pages
...rally, and prove serviceable : And therefore I, with reason, chose This stratagem, t' amuse our foes, To make an honourable retreat, And wave a total sure...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 atchieve,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 340 pages
...hanged. Dr. Baillie, in his Wall-flower, written in Newgate, 1659, uses the word caroach for coach. To make an honourable retreat, And wave a total sure defeat : For those that fly may fight again,1 Which he can never do that's slain. Hence timely running's no mean part Of conduct in the martial... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...Exclusion Bill, January 7, 1680. t Mr. Pitt's phrase. DEQUINCEY. Theological E^ays, vol. ii. p. 170. For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain. BUTLER. Hudibras. Partiu. Canto 3. From the Art of Poetry on a new Plan. Edited by OLIVER... | |
 | Children's literature - 1870 - 850 pages
...But, ah ! what consolation to skedaddlers in general is breathed in those Hudibrastic utterances — " 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." But our brave fellows had not... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 pages
...a purchase. The epigram recalls the satire of iinllcr iu "Hudibras" (Port lit Canto iii. Hue 243, : For those that fly may fight again. Which he can never do that's slain. CONTENTMENT (Jacobs I. 42, x.). TrantJated by the late Colonel Mure, of Caldtcett. What's Gyges or... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...purchase. The epigram recalls the satire of Butler in " Hudibras " (Part III. Canto ill line -' 1 :. : For those that fly may fight again. Which he can never do that's slain. CONTENTMENT (Jacobs I. 42, x.). Translated by tlte late Colonel Mure, of Caltitcett. What's Gyges or... | |
 | Alfonzo Gardiner - 1872 - 112 pages
...crown. The very house where I was born is pulled down. I have a book which I prize very much. They that fly may fight again, which he can never do that's slain. Towards the west lies the fertile shure that stretches along the Adriatic. Ex. 48. I'arse.— " The... | |
 | Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat - English literature - 1872 - 530 pages
...Guildford. Cf. the lines in Butler's Hudibras, Ft. iii. can. 3, l. 243 (often wrongly quoted) — ' For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain.' 80. Gle, music. 8 1. Tempred, tuned. 85. ' A fool's bolt is soon shot.' In Latin —... | |
 | Charles McKnight - Duquesne, Fort - 1873 - 536 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'* Sudibrat. One woe... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - 1873 - 342 pages
...But, ah ! what consolation to skedaddlers in general is breathed in those Hudibrastic utterances — "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." But our brave fellows bad not... | |
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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. 
