 | 1858 - 882 pages
...expectation of the renewing of the attack. It was a profound philosopher who said : " • Ые who fights and runs away. May live to fight another day ; But he who Is in battle slain, Will never live to fight again.' " We have often kept up the lire, at intervals,... | |
 | George A. Redman - Spiritualism - 1859 - 400 pages
...time." In cases of this nature I think prudence the best part of valor, and follow the maxim — " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." COMMUNICATED BY THE AYRSHIRE POET. A noble knight an' I one day Wi' bonnie lassies gude did hey, Frae... | |
 | Poultry - 1861 - 266 pages
...Though, apparently, spirited, the cock is not game to the back-bone. He is, fortunately, easily cowed. " He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day. " He makes the best of unfortunate circumstances, and calmly acquiesces in his fate, saying with his... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1861 - 356 pages
...some copies a cancelled leaf (reprinted in the new edition) is found, in which are the lines — ' But he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day/ which have been often quoted as occurring in Hudibras. See a long note on the subject in Bonn's edition... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham, Mary Caroline Maberly - 1861 - 164 pages
...necessary. We may, if we choose, say he who steab, &c. A well-known pair of couplets runs thus — He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Will never live to fight again. If it were not, however, for the metre, he might... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 248 pages
...really published some years before : — He that is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again ; But he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. These lines were written by Sir John Mennis, the author, in conjunction with James Smith, of the Muxantm... | |
 | Zelotes Hosmer - English literature - 1861 - 248 pages
...bу Nuit, reprinted from the editions of 1640-5 6-8. London, 1817 In this volume are the lines, " For he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Generally ascribed to the Hudibras. 737 Nabbes, Thomas, Plays and Poems, viz: Hannibal and Scipio,... | |
 | Henry D'Oyley Torrens - Asia, Central - 1862 - 422 pages
...friend Basti Ram, thinking that on this occasion " discretion was the better part of valour," and that he "that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day," escaped over the snows of the Himalayas into the British district of Kumaon. Let us not blame him.... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 262 pages
...the sword as pen, They had laid down that good old plan Of safety to a cornered man : " That he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that is in battle slain, Will never live to fight again !" And as their fighting men were scarce, Their... | |
 | Arthur Polehampton - Australia - 1862 - 300 pages
...Melbourne, and may therefore be said to have quite a legitimate place in these pages. N CHAPTER XIII. " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." FROM my own experience, I do not think even the closest friends are so unhappy in their separation... | |
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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. 
