| Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...the distance, fled the field— doubtless he remembered the advice wrongly attributed to " Hudibras," that " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day." Uis great object was to find out Nathalie, and acquaint her with the failure of his project. He knew... | |
| George Willis - 1853 - 322 pages
...Lord Chesterfield, are thus, in a volume entitled, " The Pleasing Companion, or Guide to Fame." — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise and tight again." It is also said they are to be found... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - Diet - 1854 - 564 pages
...that Sir John Minnes is not even the original author of the Hudibrastically sounding assertion — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another. day." The lines in Hudibras are as the perfecting and comment on the above, remarking as they do — " For... | |
| 1854 - 542 pages
...superciliously through her glass. ' Well, Maurice,' said the doctor, ' returned from the wars, I see — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Do you remember the old couplet of Pindar's V ' That is not Peter Pindar's, sir; you are quoting from... | |
| American wit and humor, Pictorial - 1854 - 398 pages
...himself. Somewhat sobered by these threats, Pctruchio bethought himself of the advice of Hudibras : "He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." So, heedless of the strangeness of his dress, he instantly slipt down the back stairs, and sought refuge... | |
| James Melville Gilliss - Scientific expeditions - 1855 - 616 pages
...taken prisoners; and the remainder, perhaps four hundred and fifty, adopting the belief of Falstaff, that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," "made tracks" for the city. This was quietly surrendered next day, after exchanging one or two notes,... | |
| Where - 1855 - 86 pages
...felt a wound. Romeoand Juliet, actii, scene 2. SHAKEN 1 Hide your diminished rays. Third Moral Es. 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.1 Musarum Delicice, 1656. MENNIS AND SMITH.... | |
| India - 1856 - 876 pages
...Hudibras is the only true philosophy. There is no Chinese soldier who has it not already asaprinciple— " That he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day;" and who does not believe that, under existing circumstances, this is the only course open to a rational... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1857 - 530 pages
...that Sir John Minnes is not even the original author of the Hudibrastically sounding assertion — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." The lines in Hudibras are as the perfecting and comment on the above, remarking as they do — " For... | |
| John Russell (author of Alfred Barton.) - 1858 - 394 pages
...Garcino did not attempt to retaliate. No, he acted under a better — to his taste — standing rule, " 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." and had at length slipped the bolt,... | |
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