 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 str.
...Le Sage, Gil Slat, Livre iii. Ch. xi. CHARLES DIBDIN. 1745-1814. There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Poor Jaclc. Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle ? He was all for love and a little for the bottle. Captain... | |
 | 1887 - 300 str.
...are reckless and taxpayers soft And we sailors are taken aback, Though we know " there's a Providence sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. Just hear Lyon Playfair palaver away About ironclads, ordnance, and such. By Jingo I what Science has... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 str.
...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 ! Charles Dibdin. BLOW high, blow low, let tempest tear, The main-mast by the board ; My heart with... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1885 - 352 str.
...goings-on in the same light ; and I suppose she has a firm belief that there's a sweet little cherub who sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack." " It all seems so strange," Lady Letitia said. " We were schoolgirls the other day, and now here am... | |
 | Caroline Ogilvy- Grant (countess of Seafield.) - 1885 - 122 str.
...a poor old chap like me ; did ever any one hear the like ? but ' There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack.' " Then came the business of the day, and Harry was finding a rapid sale for his wares, as the beach... | |
 | George Bayly - 1885 - 286 str.
...and American merchant-vessels riding in the bay. CHAPTER VII. " There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." DIBDIN. As soon as the crew had put the Calder in harbour trim, the European seamen were all paid off,... | |
 | William Alexander Hammond - 1885 - 476 str.
...done you. No more of ' poor Hogarth. ' You'll make me think that you're the ' sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack — ' Hogarth, I mean." " I didn't know, Uncle Victor, but that since Hogarth has met with such an... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 str.
...me, "let storms e'er so oft Take the topsails of sailors aback, There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack ! " 1 said to our Poll — for, d'ye see, she would cry — When last we weighed anchor for sea, "What... | |
 | 1889 - 708 str.
...inscription, 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... | |
 | 1889 - 934 str.
...love and u little for the bottle. n. Captain Wattle and Miss RoL There's a sweet little ohernb that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. o. Poor Jack. DioNYsrcs. Better late than never. p. Jlaliuariiamnu. IX. 9. DRUJtMOND. My life lies... | |
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There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack! 
