 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 394 pages
...chosa This stratagem t' amuse our foea To make an hon'rable retreat, And wave a total sure defeat : For 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 feats achieve.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...t* amufe our foes, 440 To make an honourable retreat, And wave a total fure defeat £ For For thofe that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's flain. Hence timely running 's no mean part 445 Of conduft, in the martial art ; By which fome glorious... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1809 - 752 pages
...chote This stratagem to amuse our roes, To make an lion'ruble retreat. And wave a total sure defeat; For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slam." Your'i, &c. A CONSTANT ULAIJI к. For the Morning Herald. No. III. Mr. EDITOR,' — I... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1797 - 722 pages
...ftratagem t' amufe our foes 440 To make an hon'rable retreat, And wave a total fure defeat : For thofe that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's ilain. Hence timely running's no mean part 445 Ot condudb, in the martial art, By which fome glorious... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...found in Hudibras. They are, however, only an amplification of a couplet actually in that book : " For those that fly may fight again, " Which he can never do, that's slain." Fame and Merit dinfirofiortionrd. It is a truth, humiliating in a high degree to human... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 pages
...chose This stratagem to' amnse onr foes To make an hon'rable retreat, And wave a total snre defeat : For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. Hence timely rnnning's no mean part Of condnct, in the martial art, By which some glorions... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...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 V slain. Hence timely running 's no mean part Of conduct, in the martial art ; By which some glorious... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1809 - 448 pages
...chose This stratagem t' amnse onr foes ; To make an hononrable retreat, And wave a total snre defeat ; For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. Hence timely rnnning's no mean p< rt Of condact in the martial art; By which some glorions... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...This stratagem, t' amuse our foes, !MO 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. Hence timely running '$ no mean part 245 Of conduct in the martial art : By which some glorious feats... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 390 pages
...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. Hence timely running's no mean part Of conduct in the martial art ; By which some glorious... | |
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For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. 
