 | Goldfinch - 1782 - 318 sayfa
...ftorms e'er fo oft Take the top-fails of failors a-back, There's a fwect little Cherub fits pcrch'd up aloft, To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. I faid to our Poll, for you fee (he would cry, When laft we weighed anchor for fea, What argufies fniv'ling... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 476 sayfa
...me, let norms e'er fo oft Take the toplaiK of failon aback, There 'ч a fweet l;ttle cherub that fits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. I faid loour Poll, for vnu lee (lie would cry, When laft we weight! anchor for fea, What argufies Iniv'linc,... | |
 | 1799 - 264 sayfa
...let ftorms e'er fb Take the topfails of failors aback : (oft There's a fweet little cherub that fits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. I faid to our Poll, (for, d'ye fee, fhe would ciy) When laft we weigh'd anchor for fea, What argufies... | |
 | Goldfinch - 1805 - 276 sayfa
...tow ; For,sayshe, do you mind me, Ut storms e'er so oft lake the top-sails of sailors aback, Tlicre's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life uf poor Jack ! I said to our Poll (for, d'ye tee, she would cry), When test we weigh'd anchor for sea;... | |
 | Roundelay - 1815 - 260 sayfa
...Without orders that comes down below, And many fine things, that prov'd clearly to me, 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, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. J said to... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 sayfa
...all '$ a hazard : come don't be so Perhaps I may laughing come back ; [soft, For, d'ye see, there's a cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. D 'ye mind me, a sailor should be every inch All as one as a piece of the ship, And with her brave... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 320 sayfa
...don't think me a milk-sop 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 the good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heav'n, mercy, and such, And, my timbers... | |
 | 1821 - 818 sayfa
...consequence, there is no idea more thoroughly imbued in sailors, than that of a particular Providence — " A sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack." — We are desirous of speaking to this point very directly, because we believe a good deal of misapprehension... | |
 | 1821 - 618 sayfa
...consequence, there is no idea more thoroughly imbued in sailors, than that of a particular Providence — " A sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack." — We are desirous of speaking to this point very directly, because we believe a good deal of misapprehension... | |
 | 734 sayfa
...foam is sure to overwhelm him, he cumWts himself with the belief that " A sweet little cherub still sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." Come, come, Sum, belay there, if you please, that brandy and lime juice handed you by Tom Norris, has... | |
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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... 
