 | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - Australian poetry - 1888 - 614 pages
...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 : No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal : And... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - Adventure stories - 1889 - 576 pages
...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 our country for our country's good ! No private views disgraced our generous zeal; What urged our travels was our country's weal, And... | |
 | George Burnett Barton - Australia - 1889 - 756 pages
...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"... | |
 | Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke - Australian literature - 1890 - 562 pages
...the first dramatic performance given in the colony, and which, from the neatness of the couplet — "True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good " — has been often quoted. There is more reason, however, to suppose that some officer of literary... | |
 | William Gammell - United States - 1890 - 416 pages
...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 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 548 pages
...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 - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...— 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,... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...From distant 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... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...lines,— From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas, we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum; s nothing. Numerous echoes of this doctrine of universal nescience are found in all No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal; And none... | |
 | George Collins Levey - Australasia - 1892 - 476 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
