 | 1865 - 470 str.
...smile, And I never larf nor play, But I sit and croak, and a single joke I have — which is to say : " Oh! I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Naney brig, And a bo' sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig ! " THE New Toy... | |
 | 1880 - 1210 str.
...and en »iik, and a single joke I have, which is to say, " ' Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite. And the crew of the captain's gig.1 " A friend of ours who seems to have nothing to do but travel, tells us that he was on his way... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 str.
...And weedy and long was he, And I heard this wight on the shore recite, In a singular minor key : " Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of...a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of tho captain's gig!" And he shook his fists and he tore his hair, Till I really felt afraid, For I couldn't... | |
 | sir William Schwenck Gilbert - 1870 - 174 str.
...possibly be • A portion of this ballad is published as a Song, by Mr. Jeffreys, Soho Square. "At once a cook, and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun light and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig." Then he gave a hitch to his trousers,... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 194 str.
...smile, And I never larf nor play, But I sit and croak, and a single joke I have — which is to say : " Oh, I am a cook, and a captain bold, And the mate...and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig ! " (By permission of tfie Author. ) MRS. BROWN GOES TO AN EVENING PARTY. BY ARTHUR SKETCHLEY. " WE... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 str.
...weedy and long was he ; And I heard this wight on the shore recite, In a singular minor key : — "0, And he shook his fists and he tore his hair, Till I really felt afraid, For I could n't help thinking... | |
 | 1872 - 900 str.
...I never lark nor play ; But I sit and croak, and a single joke I have — which is to say : " O, Ï old The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion...those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or ! " WS GILBERT. COLOGNE. IN Köln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fanged with murderous stones,... | |
 | 1884 - 794 str.
...smile, And I never lark nor play; But I sit and croak, and a single joke I have, which is to say: " ' Oh. I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig. And a bo'sun tight, nnd a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig! ' " THE OLD MAX IX THE MODEL CHURCH* JOHN H.... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - 1899 - 534 str.
...duties of men of the sea, And ( ' LI eat my hand if I understand How you can possibly be " At once a cook, and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midship mite, And the crew of the captain's gig." Then he gave a hitch to his trousers, which Is a... | |
 | 1875 - 592 str.
...of the floating timber, he felt like the " elderly man " of the " Nancy Bell " lay, who was "At once a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy...a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig." Indeed, he felt even more than this, for as the two barges lay alongside, almost if not quite touching,... | |
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Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig. 
