| John McGovern - 1880 - Страниц: 762
...of 900 songs, began one of his ballads thus : tv SIR WILLIAM JONES, TRUMBULL, CRAB BE. 581 There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. SIR WILLIAM JONES, one of the learned of the earth, culled this striking antithesis from Persian literature... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - Страниц: 1124
...And a many fine things that proved clearly to me That Providence takes us in tow : "For," says he, f f There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack ! " I said... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - Страниц: 634
...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. DfBDElf-BAlLLIE. 213 Why, I heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, mercy, and... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - Страниц: 824
...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! and b«*lay ; Why. 'twas just all as one as High Dutch ; For he said how a sparrow can't founder, d... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1881 - Страниц: 368
...Providence takes us in tow. For, says he, d'ye mind me, let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails o' sailors a-back, There's a sweet little cherub that...up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. In the next verse Jack is worldly again. When Poll is ' sniv'ling and piping her eye' at the idea of... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - Страниц: 1138
...; And a many fine things that proved clearly to me That Providence takes us in tow : For, says he, her home, And took with her the laughing spring, The music and the bloom. 1 here's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. I said... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1881 - Страниц: 1000
...nor don't think me a milksop BO soft To bo taken by trifles aback ; For they say there's a Providence t the burden be, '• The Anchor is the Anvil King, and r heard our good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heaven, incrcy, and such ; And, my timbers ! what... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1882 - Страниц: 1002
...; And a many tine tilings that proved clearly to me That Providence takes us in tow: For, says he, /`L / Y / tho life of poor Jack. I said to our Poll (for, d'ye see? she would cry When last we weighed anchor... | |
| John Ogilvie - 1882 - Страниц: 724
...; in the air; high above the ground ; as, the eagle soars aloft. There's a sweet little cherub ihat sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. DiMin. 2. Saut, in the top ; at the mast-head ; or on the higher yards or rigging; hence, on the upper... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - Страниц: 562
...And a many fine things, that proved clearly to me That Providence takes us in tow : 20 For, says he, do you mind me, let storms e'er so oft Take the top-sails...little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the Ufe of poor Jack. I said to our Poll, for, d'ye see, she would cry When last we weigh'd anchor for... | |
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