 | 1850 - 544 sider
...print, while the subject to which they refer is still fresh in the minds of your readers. MULANION. The lines — " For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day," resemble the following quatrain in the Salyre klenipp«e, being one of several verses appended to the... | |
 | 1850 - 524 sider
...while the subject to which they refer is still 1'rcsh in the minds of your renders. MEI.ANION. The lines — " For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day," resemble the following quatrain in the Satyre Menippíe, being one of several verses appended to the... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1851 - 458 sider
...Virgil's. In like manner, the following passage has been almost universally ascribed to Butler :— For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But it is nowhere to be found in that poet's works: a parallel appears, however, in Hudibras (1. Hi. canto... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - 1851 - 644 sider
...Fronabargor's courage failed him, and he made his escape, believing, no doubt, with Uudibras, that . , • . " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Richards was then directed to retreat as fast as his wounded condition would permit. Forney, in the... | |
 | Brewin Grant - 1851 - 66 sider
...or else run away. They have preferred the latter course, not according to that adage — " The man that fights and runs away May live to fight another day," but as Dr. Jortin amended it — " May live to run another day." For the same Author assures us, that "... | |
 | Thomas H. Usborne - 1852 - 252 sider
...but have wisely taken to their heels, reflecting upon something similar to those well known lines : " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that in the battle 's slain. Can never live to fight again." The next morning there was a summons for... | |
 | Th. Jefferson - 1852 - 690 sider
...the gentleman from Maryland is worse than the ancient system recommended by rjudihras. who says, that "He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Whereas, according to the plan of the gentleman from Maryland, we are to run away without fighting... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1852 - 228 sider
...was curious. I am a philosopher, and on these occasions generally repeat to myself the wise saw— 1 He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day.' So, deeming discretion the better part of valour, I retreated in disorder." " I know it's bad; but,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1852 - 774 sider
...gentleman from Maryland is worse than the ancient system recommended by iudibras, who says, that " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Whereas, according to the plan of the gentleman Vom Maryland, we are to run away without fighting at... | |
 | George Willis - 1853 - 322 sider
...again, Which he can never do that's shun, is evidently a translation from Scarron; but the couplet,— For he that fights and runs away, May, live to fight another day ; was written by Sir John Mennes in ridicule of Sir John Suckling's expedition to Scotland, in 1641.... | |
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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. 
