 | Charles White - 1889 - 710 oldal
...with much eclut, or beat of drum ; True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left our country fer our country's good : No private views disgrac'd our...country's weal : And none will doubt, but that our emigration Has proved most useful to the British nation. But you inquire, what could our breasts inflame,... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1889 - 576 oldal
...follows : "'From distant lands, o'er wide-spread sens we come, But not with much eclat or beat of drum. True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left...country for our country's good ! No private views disgraced our generous zeal; What urged our travels was our country's weal, And none can doubt but... | |
 | George Burnett Barton - 1889 - 756 oldal
...Prologue, said to have been spoken at a performance in Sydney, 16th January, 1796, including the lines — True patriots all, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good, appeared in Barrington's History, edit. 1802 and 1810, pp. 151153 ; but not in the earlier "Barrington"... | |
 | 1889 - 934 oldal
...Sc. 4. Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men. 6. SJ ARNOLD— Death of Nelson. Trne patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good. c. GEORGE BARBINGTON — Nno South Wales. Prologue for the Opening of the Play-IiOHse nt -iWio South... | |
 | William Gammell - 1890 - 416 oldal
...very many who might well have appropriated to themselves the lines of the bard of Botany Bay : — " True patriots all ; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good." They were seldom molested. The national authorities discouraged all applications for surrender in the... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - 1890 - 548 oldal
...Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Johnson. Who dared to love their country and be poor. foft. True patriots all ; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good. Barrington. Oh, Heaven I he cried, my bleeding country save. Campbell. My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 oldal
...his country's sake. — FITZ-GKFFREY : Tke Life and Death of Mir Francis Drakt, stanza 213 (1596). True patriots all ; for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. GEOKGP. BAKRINGTON : Prologue m-illen for the cpening of the Play-house at New South Walt!, Jim. Id,... | |
 | George Collins Levey - 1892 - 476 oldal
...died at a green old age at Parramatta. He was thej author of the celebrated prologue, commencing — " True patriots all, for be it understood We left our...country for our country's good ; No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal. Barringtcu, NSW A postal... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 oldal
...climes, o'er wide-spread seas, we come. Though not with much éclat 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 travels was our country's weal; And none will doubt but... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 oldal
...climes, o'er wide-spread seas, we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum; True patriots we, s 1 E O "V +} d<w O o^ { > 7 U ' 9% : QK + m w disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal; And none will doubt but... | |
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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... 
