 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...his ballads thus : tv SIR WILLIAM JONES, TRUMBULL, CRAB BE. 581 There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. SIR WILLIAM JONES, one of the learned of the earth, culled this striking antithesis from Persian literature... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...don't think me a milksop 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. DfBDElf-BAlLLIE. 213 Why, I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, and... | |
 | Matilda Mary Pollard - 1880 - 200 pages
...is really supported and kept up in the time of danger by knowing there is a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft to keep watch for the life of poor Jack." "Ah ! that sounds very pretty, Ralph, but I would far rather know the sailor's God is watching over... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...nor don't think me a milksop so soft To be taken for trifles aback; For they say there 'sa Providence L e ! I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, and such ; And, my timbers... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...me, let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback, 1 here's a sweet little cherub that She laid her hand in mine : What more could ask the bas I said to our Poll — for, d'ye see, she would cry. When last we- weigh'd anchor for sea — What... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1881 - 368 pages
...don't think me a milksop so soft To be taken for trifles a-back; For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack! In the second verse Jack has heard the chaplain palaver one day, ' about souls, heaven, mercy, and... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...mo, let storms e'er so oft Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that Other I said to our Poll (for, d'ye see ? she would cry When last we weighed anchor for sea), What argufies... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...nor don't think me a milksop so soft To be taken by trifles aback ; For they say there's a Providence I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, aud such ; And, my timbera !... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1882 - 724 pages
...; in the air; high above the ground ; as, the eagle soars aloft. There's a sweet little cherub ihat sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. DiMin. 2. Saut, in the top ; at the mast-head ; or on the higher yards or rigging; hence, on the upper... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...Le Sage, Gil Slat, Livre iii. Ch. xi. CHARLES DIBDIN. 1745-1814. There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Poor Jaclc. Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle ? He was all for love and a little for the bottle.... | |
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There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack! 
