 | Henrietta Keddie - 1852 - 896 pages
...all like the alternative." " Will you try another game ? fortune does not always frown." " Ah ! ' but he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day !' " " So you hold that ' discretion is the better part of valour.' Willie does not countenance that... | |
 | Thomas H. Usborne - 1852 - 252 pages
...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... | |
 | William Charles McKinnon - American fiction - 1852 - 336 pages
...Oh, you know," remarked Rodolphe, with a sneer, " that ' discretion is the best part of valor,' and ' he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day !' It is an ugly thing to see the Judge put on the black cap, and pronounce the awful words, 'the sentence... | |
 | Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...the distance, fled the field— doubtless he remembered the advice wrongly attributed to " Hudibras," that " He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day." Uis great object was to find out Nathalie, and acquaint her with the failure of his project. He knew... | |
 | George Willis - 1853 - 322 pages
...favourable to Lord George, observed — "If I were to sport a Hudibrastic, I would say, — " He that fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that's in the battle slain, Will never rise to fight again." It was accepted at the time, the lines... | |
 | Canada - 1854 - 710 pages
...decisions was probably the " better and displayed. part of valour" inasmuch as I "He who fights and raus away, May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain, Will never live to fight again." Mr. Abbott would display less than his usual amount of partizanship,... | |
 | 1854 - 542 pages
...superciliously through her glass. ' Well, Maurice,' said the doctor, ' returned from the wars, I see — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." Do you remember the old couplet of Pindar's V ' That is not Peter Pindar's, sir; you are quoting from... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Diet - 1854 - 564 pages
...that Sir John Minnes is not even the original author of the Hudibrastically sounding assertion — " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another. day." The lines in Hudibras are as the perfecting and comment on the above, remarking as they do — " For... | |
 | American wit and humor, Pictorial - 1854 - 398 pages
...himself. Somewhat sobered by these threats, Pctruchio bethought himself of the advice of Hudibras : "He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." So, heedless of the strangeness of his dress, he instantly slipt down the back stairs, and sought refuge... | |
 | Where - 1855 - 86 pages
...felt a wound. Romeoand Juliet, actii, scene 2. SHAKEN 1 Hide your diminished rays. Third Moral Es. He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he who is in battle slain Will never live to fight again.1 Musarum Delicice, 1656. MENNIS AND SMITH. Herself a fairer flower.... | |
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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. 
