 | Conway Keith - 1863 - 318 halaman
...retorted Adelaide. " Discretion is the best part of valour — that is your creed, it seems." " ' For he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." " Well, Mrs. Meredith," continued Adelaide, " I am at your service for to-morrow's ride, and if the... | |
 | 1863 - 588 halaman
...Street, were found wrangling among themselves respecting the authorship of the famed couplet : — " For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day." A wager of twenty to one was offered that the lines would be found in that inimitable production, Butler's... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.), W. B. B. Stevens - 1864 - 264 halaman
...place called Sal to : the cataract there has heen already descrihed. Thinking, with the old proverh, that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," he determined to make it his IUM'f ,fu;.rU-r ; for a time at least. Before doing sO, however, he pursued... | |
 | James William Massie - 1864 - 534 halaman
...fought in a cabbage-garden, and the victory achieved by complying with the poetic prescription — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." It may be guessed how he wonld have sought the liberty and welfare of the WORKING Irishman by the system... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 368 halaman
...chose This stratagem t'amuse our foes, To make an hon'rable retreat, And waive a total sure defeat: 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. Hence timely running's no mean part... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1864 - 370 halaman
...chose This stratagem t'amuse our foes, To make an hon'rable retreat, And waive a total sure defeat: 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. Hence timely running's no mean part Of... | |
 | Alexander Morrison Stewart - 1865 - 450 halaman
...connected 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 halaman
...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 halaman
...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 halaman
...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,... | |
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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. 
