 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
...Visits Like those of angels, short and far between." " The Grave."—Blair. The well known couplet— " He that fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day," has been attributed to Wordsworth; but it is not his. It is included in the " Musarum Delicise " of... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Hartwell (Buckinghamshire, England) - 1864 - 370 pages
...stratagem t'amuse our foes, To make an hon'rable retreat, And waive a total sure defeat: 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. Hence timely running's no mean part Of conduct... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Hartwell (Buckinghamshire, England) - 1864 - 368 pages
...stratagem t'amuse our foes, To make an hon'rable retreat, And waive a total sure defeat: 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. Hence timely running's no mean part Of conduct... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1864 - 324 pages
...Rabelais ? Son influence sur quelques litterateurs Anglais ? d. Dans Hudibras se trouvent ce vers : He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. De qucl ouvrage fra^ais provicnt-il 1 J>K. ABELT8HAU8ER. Translate into English : — Beginning, Der... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - English literature - 1861 - 350 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... | |
 | 1865 - 486 pages
...Sectwyr Ystradgynlais, a Mr. Lewis, Ty'ny Coed, fel eu Hudibras! " He that fights, and runs away, Will live to fight another day; But he that's in the battle slain, Will never live to fight again." Idwal. Mae añadí dda ryfeddol genyt ti, Mr. Charles. Sierlyn. Mae anadl dda... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1865 - 1120 pages
...lines almost, but not quite, identical with those given in Newbery's book, which are : " 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." I do not pretend to decide upon their authorship... | |
 | 1856 - 596 pages
...distich so often sought in vain in Hudibras is Menander's : avrlp o cpevfuv KOI iraAiii /ua^rJaeTai. He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day.' Yet after all, though to the sculptor, or to those who have profoundly studied and acquired an exquisite... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1894 - 684 pages
...never do that's slain, a palpable ignorance that ' Goldie ' supplies the more frequently quoted form : He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day. As Gray's vogue has never lessened, one need only refer to the ' Elegy ' for form's sake. Every line... | |
 | Barrie G. James - Business & Economics - 1985 - 256 pages
...profits of FF574 million in 1983.^ The quotation from Musarum Delicate in the seventeenth century; 'He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day'. is as true for military combat as it is for business combat and has lost none of its meaningfulness... | |
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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. 
