| 1833 - 598 páginas
...Providence, however, drove us 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,... | |
| 1834 - 480 páginas
...; For, says he, do you mind 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... | |
| Frederick Peter Delmé Radcliffe - 1839 - 396 páginas
...who has written to the purpose on this, as on all other points which he has touched, says, " There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft," to keep watch for the life of a sportsman, as well as of " poor Jack ;" and it is with a feeling as far as possible removed from... | |
| Frederick Peter Delmé Radcliffe - 1839 - 386 páginas
...written to the purpose on this, as on all other points which he has touched, says, " There's a aweet little cherub that sits up aloft," to keep watch for the life of a sportsman, as well as of " poor Jack ;" and it is with a feeling as far as possible removed from... | |
| John William Carleton - 1840 - 532 páginas
...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... | |
| Charles Dibdin - 1841 - 406 páginas
...with him or nigh, And saw the gallant hero die ; Yet 'scaped each shot myself, for why, — " There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack !" To Italy a great grandee Brought me through fortune's steerage, By chance of war a British tar May... | |
| J. S. S. - 1841 - 122 páginas
...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... | |
| 1852 - 570 páginas
...might be disposed to extend bis good offices. vol. xxin. A PEETTY KETTLE OF FISH.— CAUTION ! THE sweet little cherub •"• that sits up aloft to keep watch for the welfare of JOHN BULL, has for some time past been continually sweeping the horizon with his telescope... | |
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