| Alexander Morrison Stewart - 1865 - 450 páginas
...therewith. We all seemed suddenly to feel the force and propriety of that soldierly epigram : "That, he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." A retreat was determined on. The rebels being in strong force in front, in our rear, and upon our left,... | |
| 1865 - 1120 páginas
...in four lines almost, but not quite, identical with those given in Newbery's book, which are : " 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." I do not pretend to decide upon their... | |
| Charles Wheeler Denison - 1865 - 336 páginas
...galleries to be admired by the eyes of the loathed 'Yankees,' acting on the impulse of the old distich : " He who fights, and runs away, May live to fight — another day." It was rumored that Mr. DAVIS, the President of the so-called Southern Confederacy, and the rebel Generals... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...Hudibras. Part iii. Canto 3. From the Art of Poetry on a New Plan. Edited by OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 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. Sed omissis quidem divinia exhortationibus,... | |
| Thomas Archer (historical writer.) - 1866 - 128 páginas
...is, and so we have time to get ready either to fight or run, or perhaps both, for you know : — ' He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. ' " " Don't make a jest of it," said poor little Mus ; " that is our enemy, the chief of the Feline... | |
| Colonist - 1867 - 220 páginas
...yarding of a drove or mob of wild cattle. Mr. Ryan surveyed it at a little distance remembering " that he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day." Certainly this beat all the excitement of fox-hunting and taking the brush in England. This was real... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 páginas
...Butler, Hud. 1, n.831Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose, Gay, Fable 34. He who fights and runs away. May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again." Goldsmith, Art of Poetry. The combat... | |
| Enguerrand de Monstrelet - 1867 - 580 páginas
...of other captains, and English gentlemen bearing coats of arms. Conformably to the old proverb, of " He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day," did those act who fled and left their companions to bear the brunt of * Trcvieres, — « market-town... | |
| 1868 - 808 páginas
...confess it at once — a pair of legs of wonderful capacity to verify the truth of the lines, that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." The battle is daily renewed : its guerdon is nothing less than life or death. The diminutive champion... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 páginas
...BUTLER. Hudibras. Partiu. Canto 3. From the Art of Poetry on a new Plan. Edited by OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 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.* From the Abridgement of the Chronicles... | |
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