 will not be able To rally, and prove serviceable. And therefore I with reason chose This Stratagem, t ' amuse our Foes. To make an Honourable Retreat, And wave a total sure Defeat: For, those that fly, may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain....  Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars - Page 285by Samuel Butler - 1905 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Butler - 1732 - 450 pages
...wave a Total Sure Defeat; Forthofe that Fly, may fight again. Which he can never do that's flain. 445 Hence timely Running's no mean Part Of Conduft in the Martial Art. As Citizens, by Breaking, thrive; By which fome Glorious Feats atchieve, And Cannons conquer Armies,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1750 - 488 pages
...'Dfc'iwX. \ 1 350 HUD IB R AS, For thofe that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's flain. »4j Hence timely Running's no mean part Of Conduft, in the Martial Art; By which fome glorious Feats atchievc, As Citizens by Breaking thrive ; And Cannons conquer Armies, while j»5C... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1757 - 482 pages
...wave a total fure Defeat: For thofe that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's flain. 245 Hence timely Running's no mean Part Of Conduft, in the martial Art j #. 243. For thofe that fly may fight again.] A Saying of Diittaj! hents, who fled from Philip of... | |
 | Art - 1809 - 822 pages
...to was taken. " Beside our bangs of man »nd beast, Ars nc lor nothing now but rest, AuJ for a while will not be able To rally, and prove serviceable ;...And therefore I, with reason, chose This stratagem to amuse our foes, To nuke an hon'rable retreat, AnJ wave i tot.il sure defeat ; for those that fly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 652 pages
...lusing-cards. Beside, our bangs of man and beast Are fit for nothing now but rest, And for a while will not be able To rally, and prove serviceable:...those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain. Hence timely running 's no mean part Of conduct, in the martial art; By which some glorious... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 390 pages
...losing-cards. Beside, our bangs of man and beast Are fit for nothing now but rest; And for a while will not be able To rally, and prove serviceable;...that's slain. Hence timely running's no mean part Of conduct in the martial art ; By which some glorious feats achieve, As citizens by breaking thrive,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 584 pages
...losing cards : Besides, our bangs of man and beast 835 Are fit for nothing now but rest, And for a while will not be able To rally and prove serviceable; And...with reason, chose This stratagem, t' amuse our foes, 240 To make an honorable retreat, And wave a total, sure defeat; For those that fly may fight again,... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 456 pages
...losing-cards. Beside, our bangs' of man a.wiV>&asX Are fit for nothing now but rest -•, And for a while will not be able To rally, and prove serviceable: And therefore I, with reason, chose This stratagem to' amuse our foes, To make an hon'rable retreat, And wave a total sure defeat: For those that fly... | |
 | John Chambers - Worcestershire (England) - 1820 - 634 pages
...lines of Butler's to these, may be found in Hudibras, cant. 3, part 3, lines 235 to 244, ending with' " For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain." WILLIAM THOMAS, Bishop of Worcester, 1683, Was Dean of Worcester in 1665. He was a native of Bristol,... | |
 | William Davis - Bibliomania - 1821 - 776 pages
...they made search, could not find. The passage, as it really stands in " Hudibras," is as follows:— " For those that fly may fight again, " Which he can never do that's slain." The character of Hudibras is, with good reason, supposed to have been intended for Sir C. Luke, and... | |
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