| Adam Clarke - 1833 - 386 páginas
...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... | |
| William Thomas Lowndes - 1834 - 1130 páginas
...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.... | |
| Thomas Thacker - 1834 - 494 páginas
...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... | |
| Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell - 1834 - 404 páginas
...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... | |
| 1835 - 428 páginas
...author of ' Musarum Deliciae, or the Muses' Recreation.' " London, 1656. In this volume are the lines, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," which have been generally, but erroneously supposed to' form a part of Hudibras. EXTRAVAGANT EXPENDITURE.... | |
| 1835 - 428 páginas
...author of ( Musarum Delicise, or the Muses' Recreation.' " London, 1656. In this volume are the lines, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day,' 1 which have been generally, but erroneously supposed to form a part of Hud ¡bras. EXTRAVAGANT EXPENDITURE.... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - 1836 - 392 páginas
...awakened by the torch of love.w " Perhaps he may," cried Sir Francis, looking up from his newspaper — ' He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day." What say you to that, Matilda V Amongst the many important changes which were consequent on Miss Fitz-Patriek's... | |
| Adam Clarke - 1837 - 834 páginas
...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 evenmg, at St. Aubin's in the island of Jersey. A desperate... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 páginas
...arrangement of the words combined with Wilkes's story, are stronger than Butler intended them : — But he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. His adventures with Lord Talbot,2 Forbes,3 and Martin, make these lines history. Now for part the second.... | |
| Henry Cook Todd - 1840 - 300 páginas
...of militia to stand fire. Or he might desire to form a running commentary on the well known lines: He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. Which are not an extract from Hudibras, as generally supposed, but a quotation from Musarum Delicise,... | |
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