 | William Davis (bibliographer.) - Rare books - 1821 - 112 pages
...Part, ditto, 1663.— Third and Last Part, 8vo. 1678. The often contested passage, usually quoted — " He that fights and runs away, " May live to fight another day ; " But, he that is in battle slain, " Can never turn to fight again," may be found in Book III. Canto iii. Verse... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 574 pages
...they are supposed to be taken. Every one has heard, seen, and perhaps quoted the famous lines — " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that fights until he's slain, Will never live to fight again." These were long attributed to Butler,... | |
 | Universalism - 1828 - 396 pages
...resisted ; but actually fled away before the resistance commenced. However; it is an old maxim, that " he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day." Again. We are told the devil was a liar from the beginning." Now you were called upon in my former... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.), Harding Grant - 1830 - 654 pages
...heptarchy, Lucifer's distinction may, perhaps, be allowed ; because, as we are credibly informed, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." And the contest may therefore be interminable, or much prolonged ; and one of such equal parties meanwhile... | |
 | Pierce Egan - Amusements - 1832 - 426 pages
...distance, in or out of harness, from any sum from 2002. to 50002. THE DECAPITATED FIGHTING COCK ! The Cock that fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he that is in brittle slain WÜ1 never rise to fight again. The following pathetic and heart-rending account... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Galt - Canada - 1833 - 416 pages
...shape of rust ; the pistol missed fire, and I gallantly rode away without remembering the distich, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day j" calling on Munroe to follow, which he did, leaving servants and baggage, " with all the evidences... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - English imprints - 1834 - 1130 pages
...J(ohn) M(ennis) and Ja(mes¡ 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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For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. 
