 | Helen Campbell - 1892 - Страниц: 726
...to 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 - Страниц: 318
...seldom 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... | |
 | 1892 - Страниц: 702
...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 topsails of sailors aback, There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." It is not... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1892 - Страниц: 322
...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 - Страниц: 484
...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... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - Страниц: 604
...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 - Страниц: 396
...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 - Страниц: 414
...Spanish-jACK. (b) An 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 - Страниц: 680
...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 - Страниц: 494
...proved clearly to me oft That Providence takes us in tow: For, says he, do you mind me. let storms ne'er so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback, There's...our Poll (for d'ye see, she would cry When last we weighed anchor for sea), What argufies sniveling and piping your eye ? Why, what a young fool you must... | |
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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... 
