 PROLOGUE. 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 ; No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our...  The History of Tasmania - Page 151by John West - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1805 - 422 pages
...BAREINGTON, iJH OPENING THE THEATRE AT SYDNEY, BOTANY BAY. "C'ROM diftant climes o'er wide-fpread feas we come, .*- Though not with much eclat or beat of drum, True patriots all—lor be it underftood, We left our country for our country's good: No private views difgrac'd... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1887 - 616 pages
...Barrington, the pickpocket, the author of some of the oftenest quoted lines in the English language :— ‘True patriots we, for be it understood, - We left...zeal, - What urged our travels was our country's weaL' Of the many hundreds of persohs who are constantly quoting, hearing, or reading these lines, we suspect... | |
 | 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 - 622 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,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Actors - 1825 - 550 pages
...lem that way, V j—nay. ) Spoken by Mr. Barrington, 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... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Actors - 1825 - 376 pages
...justice denies." PROLOGUE, Spoken by Mr. Barringtan, 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,... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1805 - 418 pages
...HARRINGTON, ON OPENING THE THEATRE AT S 1 DN EY, BOT ANY BA Y. 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... | |
 | 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 :" I . .'••-'' 11 And when, amongst other grounds of complaint against the English army for burning... | |
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...Barrington, the noted pick-pocket, furnished the prologue, which ended with these two lines :— " True patriots we, for be it understood. We left our country for our country't good:'* DEATH'S CRADLE SONG. 67 BY CHRISTIAN LAVIXIS FREDERIC SANDER. (Frum Specimens qf... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - Canada - 1839 - 338 pages
...opened 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... | |
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