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" There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack! "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 403
1821
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Incidents and Anecdotes of Rev. Edward T. Taylor: For Over Forty Years ...

Gilbert Haven, Thomas Russell - 1873 - 476 páginas
...nearness of Providence and the 'childlikeness of trust. As they heard that word of confidence, " There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack," or that tender tribute to Tom Bowling, — " Whose body is under hatches, But his soul is gone aloft,"...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed ..., Volúmenes3-4

Casket - 1873 - 912 páginas
...don't think me a milksop so soft T o be taken for trifles aback ; For they say there'» a Providence ow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's Why, I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, and auch ; And, my timbers...
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The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets ...

Charles Mackay - 1874 - 324 páginas
...something lifted upon the rest of the house ; and aloft, lifted on high. The lark that sings aloft. The sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Dibden. Lome, frequent ; ' oft and lome,' is a common phrase in old English literature, equivalent...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 páginas
...sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears. Three Warnings. CHARLES DIBDIN. 1745-1814. There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Poor Jach. Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle ? He was all for love and a little for the hottle. Captain...
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Broken bonds, Volumen3

Henry Hawley Smart - 1874 - 334 páginas
...don't think me a milksop so soft, To be taken for trifles aback, For they says there's a Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.'" He seemed to derive much comfort from the final stanza, and was reiterating the last lines in jubilant...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears. Three Warnings. CHARLES DIBDIN. 1745-1814. There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Poor Jack. Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle ? He was all for love and a little for the bottle. Captain...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volumen2

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 páginas
...For, says he, do you mind me, let storms e'er so oft Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There 'sa f Bagdad.— From 'ffajj'i ßaia.' may add here an English song as truly naUonal as any of Dibdin's, though of a totally ditlerent character....
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Two Years Abaft the Mast, Or Life as a Sea Apprentice

F. W. H. Symondson - 1876 - 406 páginas
...the term, " a good seaman," sailors mean a smart hand at working on the rigging. •But— " There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of ' drunk' Jack." There is a vast difference between the merchant sailor and his fellow " salt," the...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volumen2

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...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 ! I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, and such ; And, my timbers...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volumen11

Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1877 - 732 páginas
...rules the waves ! ' At any rate, the sailors believe it just as unreservedly as that — 1 There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.' The novelty of a sea voyage has pretty well worn off, yet scientists and sailors never tire of describing...
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