 | 1874
...these well-known lines b| yond their reputed authors. The ven supposed to originate with Butler, " 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," are not in the Hudibras; and lines va similar... | |
 | National portrait gallery - 1874
...read of in fairy tales, could have transformed those magic words into some such as these : — • ' He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day ! But he that is in battle slain Will never live to fight again.' And, what is worse, suppose our sailors had... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 480 páginas
...Cyclopaedia " was dragging me down. The Society had a charter, and might some day renew its active life : " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Had I not fought on to the end of my perilous commercial, enterprise, I should have been disgraced.... | |
 | 1874
...imiuted by Butler in " Hudibras ": 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. — in idea found in "Ralph Roister Doister" and rther early productions. Sir John seems also to have... | |
 | Mary Cecil Hay - 1874
...owned to the inheritance " and the motto below is from the Musarum Delicice. You know the lines — ' He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day.' " " The inheritance of cowardice," said Royden, smiling into her eyes. " And Gabriel's mother was a... | |
 | sir John Mennes - 1874
...retreated with the rest without striking a blow. It has commonly been imagined that the lines — " For he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," attributed by Mr. Cunningham and Dr. Rimbault to Mennis, were to be found in this poem, but they form... | |
 | G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS - 1874
...Cyclopaedia" was dragging me down. The Society had a charter, and might some day renew its active life : ' 1 ' He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Had I not fought on to the end of my perilous commercial enterprise, I should have been disgraced.... | |
 | Will David Howe - 1915
...many parts. 7. Harvard University which is our oldest university is in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 8. He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day. 9. Then the rain which they had long wished for fell in torrents. 10. The man is best dressed whose... | |
 | Noah J. Major - 1915 - 3 páginas
...two were wounded and the other one refused to follow up the retreating enemy. This was a case where "He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day." One of the social customs of the pioneers was the evening call. That came in vogue after the cabin... | |
 | Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje - 1916 - 98 páginas
...wise. EUROPEAN EQUIVALENT 352. (a) He that strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear. (6) He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day. (c) Deep swimmers and high climbers seldom die in their beds. 353. A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees... | |
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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. 
