...Let BRITANNIA cling to the comfort that whichever way the fight may fall out, there will still be " A sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor JOHN ; " which his name is — no— modestly forbids our putting it in full ; but we will only say...

...? All 'sa hazard : Compunction is soft : Suppose a few tars ne'er oome back ! — Leave them to the Cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of Poor JACK ! Hearts of oak in old times were our ships, every inch, And our men the same stuff' as the ship :...

...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...

...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...

...S. ANTONIO MONJUICH BARCELONA. " Says he, do you mind me, tho' storms e'er so oft Take the top lifts of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that...up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." Dibdi*. Dec. 3. — AFTER the preceding days of calm and beautiful weather, we were awakened today...

...through the fog; damp and dreariness were the prevailing characteristies of the evening; and yet if the " Sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack," had looked down upon the antique towers of Champion Hall, he would have seen even a far at ...

...below ; And many fine things that proved clearly to me That Providence takes us in tow: For, says he, do you mind me, let storms e'er so oft, Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, I said to our Poll, for d' ye see, she would cry,...

...it hung, and part of the tackle that had lately held it, idly dangling in the gale. CHAPTER VII. " There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep •watch o'er the life of poor Jack." DIBDIN. The instant Herbert perceived what had happened, his first care...

...for the grammar of which Dibdin was scarcely responsible : — These are sweet little cherubs what sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. But in 1823 I was sent off to more serious schooling at Blandford, and both Sells and Hosier passed...

...pleasing belief that there is still truth in what the poet of the British Navy so deliciously sings, — There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. How closely angel and man are linked together, is again asserted by the same heavenly messenger, in...