 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1805 - 418 pages
...MR. BARRINGTON, OH OPENING THE THEATRE AT SY DN EY, BO TANYB AY. diftant climes o'er wide-fpread feas we come, •*• Though not with much eclat or beat of drum, True patriots all — for be it underftood, We left our country for our country's good : No private views difgrac'd... | |
 | George Barrington - Natural history - 1802 - 592 pages
...spoken at the theatre, which is certainly particularly dcacriplice of the theatrical corps. PROLOGUE. From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come,...not with much eclat, or beat of drum ; True patriots all, for be it understood, We left our country, for our country's good : Afo private views disgrac'd... | |
 | 1815 - 930 pages
...in Port-Jackson. 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... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Actors - 1825 - 374 pages
...justice denies." PROLOGUE, Spoken by Mr. Barringtim, on opening the Theatre, at Sydney, Botany Bay. FROM distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas, we come,...not with much eclat, or beat of drum ; True patriots all ; for, be it understood, We left our country, for our country's good ; No private views disgrac'd... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...Jackson. Barrington, the noted pickpocket, furnished the prologue, which ended with these lines : — True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country'« gond, ALL GONE OUT. Not long since a gentleman near Birmingham, having occasion to see afriend,... | |
 | Peter Miller Cunningham - New South Wales - 1827 - 346 pages
...at least of that 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... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...South Wales, by 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 - Canada - 1839 - 386 pages
...the theatre at 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1841 - 682 pages
...a class described by Barrington, the famous pickpocket, in a prologue spoken in New South Wales : ' True patriots we ; for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good.'* Mr. Adams continues — ' Preserve, in all their purity, refine, if possible, from all their alloy,... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Psychology - 1845 - 348 pages
...the above, was 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... | |
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From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas, we come. Though not with much eclat or beat of drum; True patriots we, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. 
