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Old and New London
… remain: For here they lie, had realms and lands, That now want strength to stir their hands, Where from their pulpits, …
Old and New London
… him and his fellow-watermen that they should never want fish, "provided they would give one-tenth of what they …
Old and New London
… of the Saxon kings had been crowned at Kingston-onThames. Want of space prevents us from noticing many curious customs … George II., but in 1738 the works were at a standstill for want of money, and a petition was presented, which was …
Old and New London
… he who was destitute of all things when alive might not want a monument when dead." One cannot help remarking of such …
Old and New London
… excellent ghost story connected with the school, which want of space forbids our giving here. So many of the …
Old and New London
… weeks of his life, and died in actual penury and even in want of bread. Such was the end of the man who had sung the … until the present century. Owing to its narrowness and want of light and air, and the crowded courts by which it was …
Old and New London
… (now called Queen Anne's Gate), but it was closed for want of funds six years afterwards. In 1803 another attempt …