| 1835 - 736 páginas
...remarks : " Your correspondent, in p. 338, has only quoted one half of the Hudibrastic lines : For he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another...; But he that's in the battle slain, . Will never live to fight again. Now, it is true these very lines are not to be found in Hudibros ; yet exactly... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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 - 1840 - 540 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| John Graham - 1841 - 428 páginas
...against Lord Antrim's regiment last Decemher, and that for our own wise purposes. Hudihras says — " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," But Lundy thinks 'tis very right, To run away hefore you fight. This logic is very agreeahle to me, hrother... | |
| Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1841 - 424 páginas
...take advantage of a southern breeze to make their passage up the North sea, and round Scotland home. " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." So, however, did not the Spaniards. " About these north islands their mariners and soldiers died daily... | |
| |