 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...a farce, this noted pickpocket furnished the prologue which contained the two following lines : — True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country, for our country's good. EPITAPH ON THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA'S LEG WHICH WAS SOLEMNLY INTERRED. Here lies the Earl of Uxbridge's... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1858 - 1022 pages
...rather, widely known, light-fingered gentleman to whom is ascribed the wiUy couplet : *' True patriot* we! For be It understood, We left our country for our country's good." On the voyage oat Barrington gained the good-will of the officer» of the ship, by assisting so materially... | |
 | Frank Fowler - Australia - 1859 - 156 pages
...Barrington's prologue*. * The epigrammatic couplet (which of course the reader has never met before !), — " True patriots we, for be it understood We left our country for our country's good,"— formed part of the brilliant pickpocket's composition. Clergymen get up their sermons over the pipe... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake, Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1860 - 218 pages
...well known, or rather widely known, light-fingered gentleman to whom is aseribed the witty couplet: "True patriots we! For be it understood, We left our country for our country's good." — Allibone. 1O1. In a letter from William Cobbett to Sir Francis Hurdett, 20th June, 1817, enclosing... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - 1862 - 336 pages
...the production of Mr. Barrington, was spoken, in which were to be found the appropriate lines : — " True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good." The authorities on licensing the undertaking gave the manager to understand that the slightest infraction... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - 1862 - 324 pages
...Harrington, was spoken, in which were to be found the appropriate lines : — " True patriots ire, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good." The authorities on licensing the undertaking gave the manager to understand that the slightest infraction... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1863 - 816 pages
...in an enviable, solvent condition, have resided at Boulogne ; but this is hardly the common rule. ' True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good/ are lines not without some appropriateness for a considerable proportion of that two-thirds of the... | |
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - Freed persons - 1863 - 308 pages
...comedian Garrick proposed as the commencement of an address for the opening of a theatre at Botany Bay — "True patriots we, for be it understood We left our country for our country's good." What distinguished magi we have got in America. Is it not wonderful to contemplate such so-called farreaching... | |
 | John Booth - Epigrams - 1865 - 400 pages
...afterwards to be stage manager and High Sheriff at Botany Bay, and in a prologue to a play wrote : — True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. (M0) John Home, the divine and dramatic author, wrote, as most men know, the tragedy of Douglas, which... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...afterwards to be stage manager and High Sheriff at Botany Bay, and in a prologue to a play wrote : — True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. (*") John Home, the divine and dramatic author, wrote, as most men know, the tragedy of Douglas, which... | |
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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 all, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good... 
