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" That smells the slaughter'd victim from on high, Flies at a distance, if the priests are nigh, And sails around, and keeps it in her eye ; So kept the god the virgin... "
Sir Andrew Sagittarius; or, The perils of astrology - Page 84
by sir Andrew Sagittarius (fict. name.) - 1824
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 6

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...and took a wheeling flight, And hover'd o'er them; as the spreading kite, That smells the slaughter'd victim from on high, Flies at a distance, if the priests...are nigh, And sails around, and keeps it in her eye ; So kept the god the virgin choir in view, And in slow winding circles round them flew As Lucifer...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Dryden, Smith, Duke ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...took a wheeling flight, And hover'd оЧт them; as the spreading kite, That smells the slaughter'd victim from on high, Flies at a distance, if the priests...are nigh, And sails around, and keeps it in her eye: bo kept the god the virgin choir in vie«', And in slow winding circles round them flew. As Lucifer...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 20

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 798 pages
...wheeling flight, And hover'd o'er them: as the spreading kite, That smells the slaughterM victirrr from on high, Flies at a distance, if the priests...are nigh, And sails around, and keeps it in her eye; So kept the god the virgin quire in view, And in slow winding circles round them flew. As Lucifer excels...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 9

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...took a wheeling flight, And bovcr'd o'er them j as the spreading kite, That smells the slaughter'd victim from on high, Flies at a distance, if the priests are nigh, And sails around, and keeps it in her «ye: So kept the god the virgin choir in view, And in slow winding circles round them flew. As Lucifer...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 9

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...and took a wheeling flight, And hover'd o'er them; as the spreading kite, That smells the slaughter^! victim from on high, Flies at a distance, if the priests are nigh, And sails around, aijd keeps it in her eye: So kept the god the virgin choir in view, And in slow winding circles round...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 9

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...and took a wheeling flight, And hovcr'd o'er them; as the spreading kite, That smells the slaughter'd victim from on high, Flies at a distance, if the priests are nigh, Aud sails around, and keeps it in her-eye: So kept the god the virgin choir in view, And in alow winding...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes: Poems

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 542 pages
...took a wheeling flight, And hover'd o'er them : as the spreading kite, That smells the slaughter'd victim from on high. Flies at a distance, if the priests...are nigh, And sails around, and keeps it in her eye ; So kept the god the virgin choir in view, And in slow winding circles round them flew. As Lucifer...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 1

Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 532 pages
...took a wheeling flight, And hover'd o'er them : as the spreading kite, That smells the slaughter'd victim from on high, Flies at a distance, if the priests...are nigh, And sails around, and keeps it in her eye -, So kept the god the virgin choir in view, And in slow winding circles round them flew. As Lucifer...
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The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Volume 6

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 354 pages
...took a wheeling flight, And hoyer'd o'er them ; .as the spreading kite, That smells the slaughter'd victim from on high, Flies at a distance, if the priests...are nigh, And sails around, and keeps it in her eye ; So kept the god the virgin choir in view, And in slow winding circles round them flew As Lucifer...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 302 pages
...and took a wheeling flight, And hover'd o'er them. As the spreading kite, That smells the slaughter'd victim from on high, Flies at a distance, if the priests...are nigh, And sails around, and keeps it in her eye; So kept the god the virgin quire in view, And in slow winding circles round them flew. As Lucifer excels...
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