 | 1833 - Страниц: 598
...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,... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1830 - Страниц: 192
...lamb !" and " when on board" — he " braves all ! dreads nought !" for he knows that " There is a little cherub that sits up aloft to keep watch for the life of poor Jack !" I think the English Navy, as well as the English nation, have thus Ibeen greatly served by Mr. Dibdin.... | |
 | 1831 - Страниц: 272
...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 day, About souls, heaven, mercy, and such ; And. my timbers... | |
 | 1833 - Страниц: 598
...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 - Страниц: 480
...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 the good chaplain palaver, one day, About souls, heaven, mercy, and such ; And, my timbers!... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1836 - Страниц: 632
...plough-boy, or waggoner — among " hewers of wood and drawers of water," — its cheering burden " There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack," seemed to smooth the brow of care and to soften the severity of toil. The religious complexion of the... | |
 | Frederick Peter Delmé Radcliffe - 1839 - Страниц: 396
...Nimrod, 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 - Страниц: 386
...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 - Страниц: 532
...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 - Страниц: 406
...sarved 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... | |
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twas just all as one as High Dutch; For he said how a sparrow can't founder, d'ye see, Without orders that come down below; And a many fine things that proved clearly... 
