 | Oliver MacAllester - 1767 - 554 str.
...Hudibraftic principles, often experienced, proved, and practifed amongft the French themfelves, That he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that is in battle jlain, Can never rife to fight again : Confians foon quitted the engagement, and... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1808 - 142 str.
...better partbf 4 The better part of valour is discretion. Old saying, which the poet thus explains : " For he that fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that is in battle slain, Can never live to fight again ;" an idea for which he was indebted to Homer's... | |
 | 1815 - 704 str.
...ARISTOT. De Pnel. XrilT. Pray where is ./</• passage? I'.u pede Hcrculem. A FIFTB-FORM LAD. H. " The man that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again." Mr. URBAN, March"T. IF the Gentleman who... | |
 | 1817 - 376 str.
...retreated with the rest without striking a blow. It has commonly been imagined that the lines — " For he that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," attributed by Mr. Cunningham and Dr. Rimbault to Mennis, were to be found in this poem, but they form... | |
 | William Davis (bibliographer.) - 1821 - 112 str.
...Part, ditto, 1663.— Third and Last Part, 8vo. 1678. The often contested passage, usually quoted — " He that fights and runs away, " May live to fight another day ; " But, he that is in battle slain, " Can never turn to fight again," may be found in Book III. Canto iii.... | |
 | 1827 - 574 str.
...they are supposed to be taken. Every one has heard, seen, and perhaps quoted the famous lines — " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ; But he that fights until he's slain, Will never live to fight again." These were long attributed to Butler,... | |
 | 1828 - 396 str.
...resisted ; but actually fled away before the resistance commenced. However; it is an old maxim, that " he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day." Again. We are told the devil was a liar from the beginning." Now you were called upon in my former... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.), Harding Grant - 1830 - 654 str.
...heptarchy, Lucifer's distinction may, perhaps, be allowed ; because, as we are credibly informed, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." And the contest may therefore be interminable, or much prolonged ; and one of such equal parties meanwhile... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 str.
...distance, in or out of harness, from any sum from 2002. to 50002. THE DECAPITATED FIGHTING COCK ! The Cock that fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he that is in brittle slain WÜ1 never rise to fight again. The following pathetic and heart-rending... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1833 - 386 str.
...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 evening at St. Aubin's, in the island of Jersey. A desperate... | |
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For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again. 
