| Military art and science - 1833 - 598 pages
...clear of the danger, and strongly proved to our grateful minds, that there's A sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. About nine, the storm began to abate, the ship was got before the wind, under close-reefed fore top-sail,... | |
| Ballads, English - 1834 - 480 pages
...me, let storms e'er so oft Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. I said to our Poll, for, you see, she would cry, When last we weighed anchor for sea, What argufies... | |
| John William Carleton - 1840 - 532 pages
...for the comfort of Leicestershire fox-hunters ; and, secondly, that not only is there a Providence " sits up aloft to keep watch for the life of poor Jack," but that, in all situations in which we poor mortals are placed, we meet with hair-breadth escapes and... | |
| J. S. S. - 1841 - 122 pages
...deep, leaving a foaming track behind, he was often heard humming to himself, " A sweet little cherub sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." That sweet little cherub, we need not say, was, according to Ichabod's version of the song, Barbara... | |
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1873 - 566 pages
...like a coat to be doft, Which owners, when lost, can give back, I say, more power to PLIMSOLL, who sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of Poor JACK ! Music] and Wut. A SCOTTISH Gentleman proposes that, on the occasion of the next Gregorian Demonstration"... | |
| Charles Dibdin - Ballads, English - 1841 - 406 pages
...me, let storms e'er so oft, Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. I said to our Poll, for d'ye see she would cry, When last we weigh'd anchor for sea, What argufies... | |
| Charles Henry Knox - 1842 - 968 pages
...the Champagne ; if the evening was foggy, the claret was clear; and if the " Sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack" had taken a peep down into the cabin of the " Sea Squirrel," he would have seen as merry and light-hearted... | |
| American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...don't think me a milk-sop so soft To be taken for trifles aback; For they say there 'sa Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Why, I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, and such ; And, my timbers!... | |
| 1846 - 352 pages
...truth in what the poet of the British Navy so deliciously sings, — There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. How closely angel and man are linked together, is again asserted by the same heavenly messenger, in... | |
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