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" For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again. "
Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography ... - Page 61
by George Willis - 1853
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An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...

Adam Clarke - 1833 - 386 pages
...St. Peters, he found his naval heroes in great safety, who seem to have acted on the old proverb, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." He had a more narrow escape for his life, one evening at St. Aubin's, in the island of Jersey. A desperate...
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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of ...

William Thomas Lowndes - English imprints - 1834 - 1130 pages
...J(ohn) M(ennis) and Ja(mesĦ S(mith). London, 1656. 12mo. Pp. 101. In this volume are the lines' For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day' which have been generally supposed to form a part of Hudibras. Hibbert, 5320, II Bibl. Anglo-Poet....
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The Courser's Companion, Volume 2

Thomas Thacker - Coursing - 1834 - 494 pages
...fight with fire or energy, though at the same time they were not what Hudibras would recommend:— " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day.'' They do not run away, but will stand slashing to death ; yet it is observed and admitted by all I have...
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Discoveries in Asia Minor: Including a Description of the Ruins of ..., Volume 1

Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell - Antioch (Turkey) - 1834 - 404 pages
...resembled him in another point. " Will honour set to a leg ? " or in the clearer language of Hudibras, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; " so our hero of Yalobatz, on the first alarm of any disorder in the town or neighbourhood, from...
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The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]., Volume 2

1835 - 428 pages
...author of ' Musarum Deliciae, or the Muses' Recreation.' " London, 1656. In this volume are the lines, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," which have been generally, but erroneously supposed to' form a part of Hudibras. EXTRAVAGANT EXPENDITURE....
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The Parterre, Volume 2

1835 - 428 pages
...author of ( Musarum Delicise, or the Muses' Recreation.' " London, 1656. In this volume are the lines, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day,' 1 which have been generally, but erroneously supposed to form a part of Hud Ħbras. EXTRAVAGANT EXPENDITURE....
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Modern Accomplishments, Or, The March of Intellect

Catherine Sinclair - English fiction - 1836 - 392 pages
...awakened by the torch of love.w " Perhaps he may," cried Sir Francis, looking up from his newspaper — ' He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day." What say you to that, Matilda V Amongst the many important changes which were consequent on Miss Fitz-Patriek's...
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An Account of the Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by ...

Adam Clarke - 1837 - 834 pages
...St. Peters, he found his naval heroes in great safety, who seem to have acted on the old proverb, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." He had a more narrow escape for his life, one evenmg, at St. Aubin's in the island of Jersey. A desperate...
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The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright].

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...arrangement of the words combined with Wilkes's story, are stronger than Butler intended them : — But he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. His adventures with Lord Talbot,2 Forbes,3 and Martin, make these lines history. Now for part the second....
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Notes Upon Canada and the United States: From 1832 to 1840 : Much in a Small ...

Henry Cook Todd - Canada - 1840 - 300 pages
...of militia to stand fire. Or he might desire to form a running commentary on the well known lines: He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. Which are not an extract from Hudibras, as generally supposed, but a quotation from Musarum Delicise,...
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