 | English wit and humor - 1887 - 300 pages
...are reckless and taxpayers soft And we sailors are taken aback, Though we know " there's a Providence sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. Just hear Lyon Playfair palaver away About ironclads, ordnance, and such. By Jingo I what Science has... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...don't think me a milksop so soft, To be taken for trifles aback ; For they say there's a providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack ! Charles Dibdin. BLOW high, blow low, let tempest tear, The main-mast by the board ; My heart with... | |
 | William Alexander Hammond - 1885 - 476 pages
...done you. No more of ' poor Hogarth. ' You'll make me think that you're the ' sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack — ' Hogarth, I mean." " I didn't know, Uncle Victor, but that since Hogarth has met with such an... | |
 | George Bayly - English fiction - 1885 - 286 pages
...and American merchant-vessels riding in the bay. CHAPTER VII. " There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." DIBDIN. As soon as the crew had put the Calder in harbour trim, the European seamen were all paid off,... | |
 | Caroline Ogilvy- Grant (countess of Seafield.) - 1885 - 122 pages
...a poor old chap like me ; did ever any one hear the like ? but ' There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack.' " Then came the business of the day, and Harry was finding a rapid sale for his wares, as the beach... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1885 - 352 pages
...goings-on in the same light ; and I suppose she has a firm belief that there's a sweet little cherub who sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack." " It all seems so strange," Lady Letitia said. " We were schoolgirls the other day, and now here am... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...me, "let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack ! " 1 said to our Poll — for, d'ye see, she would cry — When last we weighed anchor for sea, "What... | |
 | 1889 - 708 pages
...in a piercing shout up the schoolroom stairs, ' Hosier ! ' ' What, my dear ? ' ' What's a clock ? ' 'A pretty round thing up a-top o' Market-house.' Hosier...both Sells and Hosier passed out of my experience. Lady Car: the Sequel of a Life. BY MRS. OLIPHANT. CHAPTER I. LADY CAROLINE BEAUFORT was supposed to... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1889 - 934 pages
...love and u little for the bottle. n. Captain Wattle and Miss RoL There's a sweet little ohernb that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. o. Poor Jack. DioNYsrcs. Better late than never. p. Jlaliuariiamnu. IX. 9. DRUJtMOND. My life lies... | |
 | Sir Richard Collinson - Arctic regions - 1889 - 584 pages
...cannot wonder Arctic voyagers feel more than other sailors the tru.st in the " sweet little cherub that sits up aloft to keep watch for the life of poor Jack." One of the most imminent of those narrated happened to the Investigator in September, 1851, while working... | |
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There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack! 
