 | 1810 - 420 דפים
...o'er wide spread sea» we corn*, Tbsugli not with m«ch eclat or beat of i!rn» ; True patriots »H, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urg'd our traveli wa» our country's weal ; And none will doubt but... | |
 | George Barrington - 1802 - 592 דפים
...certainly particularly dcacriplice of the theatrical corps. PROLOGUE. From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat, or beat...understood, We left our country, for our country's good : Afo private views disgrac'd our generous zeal, What urg'd our tiavels, was our country's weal; And... | |
 | 1815 - 930 דפים
...The noted Barrington furnished the prologue, which he ended with ih , ,e liues: " True patriots we ; for be it understood, We left our country, — for our country's good." CLASSICAL APPLICATIONS. " Two Oxford scholars being at a loss for amusement, one said to the other... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 דפים
...BAY. FROM distant climes, o'er far spread seas we come, But not with much eclat or beat of drum, Tho' patriots all; for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. . . . .. i . . In private views at end, our generous zeal, That urg'd our travels, was our country's... | |
 | Peter Miller Cunningham - 1827 - 346 דפים
...class of our community, facetiously self-described in the first Botany prologue as True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good, are any thing but degraded iu feeling, when we see them thus, in the plenitude of honest pride arising... | |
 | 1834 - 614 דפים
...that class of persons so humorously described by Barrington, who was one of them : " True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good ;" . •• - - ' ' 3 i And when, amongst other grounds of complaint against the English army for burning... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1839 - 338 דפים
...Botany Bay, Barrington spoke the prologue, which ended with these two lines:— " True Patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country, for our country's good." In this view of the case, some of them, it is hoped, will turn out patriots before they die, if they... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 דפים
...the notorious pick-pocket, wrote the prologue ; which ended with these lines : True patrióle we ; for, be it understood, We left our country — for our country's good Ignorance— Willfulness. Tiie ignoran/— oppose without discrimination. Harvey, for asserting the... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 1845 - 348 דפים
...made by a celebrated convict at Botany Bay, in respect to himself and associates : " True patriots we, For, be it understood, We left our country For our country's good." Wit may not inappropriately be denominated shallow sense, being, in most instances, the antithesis... | |
 | 1898 - 712 דפים
...THE BOTANY BAY THEATRE. See 2" d S. viii. 294; 3* S. iii. 120 ; iv. 245; xi. 476; 9 th S. ii. 384.) True patriots all, for be it understood We left our country for our country's good. ELSEWHERE* I have shown that the ' Prologue ' containing the above-quoted lines was not written by... | |
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From distant climes, o'er widespread seas, we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum, True patriots all; for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good... 
