| George Newnes - 1905 - 834 páginas
...bubble of Reform in Tenniel's cartoon on the 1 THE CHERUB I " — " There's a sweet little Chamberlain sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack F" /"Punch," March *;Jnd. IMi. By pfrmiuion of the Proprietor*. ) MR. CHAMBERLAIN. Bv SIR JOHN TENNIEL.... | |
| Helen Campbell - 1892 - 726 páginas
...repeat the experience or even to find it his last. Sailors' songs are full of the same faith. " There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack " — (434) A ROMANCE OF THE SEA. wrote Dibdin a hundred years ago, adding a thousand songs of sailor... | |
| William P. Bennett - 1892 - 318 páginas
...thinks of dangers until they are upon him. He has faith in the words of Dibden's old song — "There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." The hard work he takes as a matter of course. One of his commandments is — " Six days shall thou... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1892 - 322 páginas
...for his weakness and tender years, was always kind ; and though he appeared to be overlooked by the sweet little cherub that sits up aloft to keep watch for the soul of poor Jack, he was certainly observed by the good women of Brixham, who, having known his parents,... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 482 páginas
...Гиг, says he, do you 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 weigh 'd anchor for aea, What argufies... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...replied that " Providence was his very nextdoor neighbor." — Sterne. There is a sweet little chernb that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack. — DibdiA. You mav say, " I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 396 páginas
...who hummed over Dibdin's characMondir, i7ih Aug. tenstic air : — " They say there 'sa Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." j'.injir. The weather had been very gentle all night, and, about four in the l8lh A"8- morning of the... | |
| William Ernest Henley - 1896 - 414 páginas
...attendant at a boat-house. 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 - 1896 - 680 páginas
...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 - 1897 - 492 páginas
...tow: For, says he, do you mind 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... | |
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