 | John Evans - 1818 - 564 pàgines
...River Head, Islington, in the following manner : — " A troop of labourers to the number of sixty ,and upwards, all in green caps alike, bearing in their...their several employments in so great a business, marching with drums before them, twice or thrice round the cistern, orderly present themselves before... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pàgines
...warlike music of drums and trumpets liberally beat the air' at the approach of the civic magnates ; then 'a troop of labourers, to the number of threescore...the mount, and after ' their obeisance, the speech ia pronounced.' It thus commences : ' Long have we labour'd, long desir'd, and pray'd For this great... | |
 | John Burke - 1838 - 624 pàgines
...ceremony upon the occasion was published at the time : " A troop of labourers, to the number of sixty and upwards, all in green caps alike» bearing in their...their several employments in so great a business, marching, with drums before them, twice or thrice round the cestern, orderly present themselves before... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1864 - 684 pàgines
...namesake, but apparemly no kinsman of Sir Hugh's. After a performance of music, there appeared ' ;• troup of labourers, to the number of threescore or upwards, all in green cap.alike, bearing in their hands the symbols of their sev.eral employments/ аЫ by one of their number,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 866 pàgines
...drums and trumpets liberally beat the air' at the approach of the civic magnates ; then ' a troop 390 of labourers, to the number of threescore or upwards,...before the mount, and after their obeisance, the speech is pronounced.' It thus commences : ' Long have we labour'd, long desir'd, and pray'd For this great... | |
 | Thomas Middleton - 1886 - 436 pàgines
...London, in true joy of heart to see his time, travails, and expenses so successively greeted, thus gives entertainment to that honourable assembly :...themselves before the mount, and after their obeisance, The Speech.1 Long have we labour'd, long desir'd and pray'd For this great work's perfection, and by th'... | |
 | Thomas Middleton - 1886 - 444 pàgines
...that man undertakes but hath a war within itself, and perfection makes the 264 The Entertainment at the conquest ; and no few or mean onsets of malice,...themselves before the mount, and after their obeisance, The Speech.1 Long have we labour'd, long desir'd and pray'd For this great work's perfection, and by th'... | |
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... the conquest ; and no few or mean onsets of malice, calumnies, and slanders, hath this resolved gentleman borne off, before his labours were invested with victory, as in this following speech to those honourable auditors then placed upon the mount... 