 | William Ernest Henley - English language - 1896 - 414 pages
...Also JACK-INTHE-WATER (qV). 1788. C. DIBDIN, Poor Jack, 'Song*. There's a sweet little Cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor JACK. 1867. Caiselfs Family Paper, 23 Feb. The old brigadier ordered the JACKS to storm. 11. (American schools').... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 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! I heard our good chaplain palaver one d»T About souls, heaven, mercy, and sod:; And, my timbers! what... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 494 pages
...me. let storms ne'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! I said to our Poll (for d'ye see, she would cry When last we weighed anchor for sea), What argufies... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 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 ! I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, and such ; And, my timbers!... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...one's soul To a worthy end." R. BROWNING. Mr. Sludge, the medium. " There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." DIBDIN. Poor Jack. " There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd." SHAKESPEARE. Antony and Cleopatra... | |
 | William D. Hall - English language - 1898 - 326 pages
...Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — SHAKSI'ERE. 15. There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.— DIBDIN. 165. An adverbial clause is a clause that performs the office of an adverb. The adverbial clause... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 558 pages
...mind 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!" I said to our Poll, for, d'ye see, she would cry, When last we weighed anchor for sea — " What argufies... | |
 | John Farmer - 1898 - 44 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. Why, I heard our good chaplain palaver one About souls, heaven, mercy, and such ; And, my timbers!... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 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 I I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, and such ; And, my timbers... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1899 - 550 pages
...mind 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 ! I said to our Poll (for d'ye see she would cry When last we weighed anchor for sea), What argufies... | |
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There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack! 
