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Poems on Several Occasions

With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures
Hughes, John (1677-1720)

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POEMS ON Several Occasions.
  
DIALOGUE FROM THE French of Monsieur De la Motte.
  
VENUS and ADONIS,
  
CANTATA. PASTORAL.
  
BEAUTY,
  
MYRA.
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ALEXANDER's FEAST: OR, The Power of Musick .
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AN ODE TO THE Creator of the World.
  
TO Mr. ADDISON,
  
ADVICE to Mr. POPE.
  
TO THE MEMORY of Mr. MILTON.
  
To a Lady, with the Tragedy of CATO.
  
A FRAGMENT.
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SERENATA, FOR TWO VOICES. On the Marriage of the Right Honourable the LORD COBHAM to Mrs. ANNE HALSEY.
  
HORATIUS, In Libro Primo Epistolarum.
  
HYMN. Sung by the Children of Christ's Hospital, at the Entry of KING GEORGE into London, 1714.
  
A MONUMENTAL ODE. To the Memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes,
  
AN Allusion to HORACE. BOOK I. ODE XXII.
  
AN ODE [FOR TWO VOICES] FOR THE Birth-Day of Her Royal Highness THE PRINCESS of WALES, St. David's Day, the First of March, 1715–16.
  
ODE To the Right Honourable the Lord Chancellor COWPER . Anno MDCCXVII.
  
WHAT IS MAN?
  
From BOILEAU, In his First Epistle to Lewis XIV .
  
AN IMAGE OF PLEASURE.
  
THE PATRIOT.
  
The Second Scene of the First Act of ORESTES, A TRAGEDY.
  
ON THE BIRTH-DAY Of the Right Honourable The Lord Chancellor Parker .
  
The XIVth Olympick of Pindar. TO Asopicus of Orchomenus .
  
Written in a Window at Wallington-House. MDCCXIX.
  
THE SUPPLEMENT:
  
THE ECSTASY.

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Recitative.

With downcast Looks the joyless Victor sat
Revolving in his alter'd Soul
The various Turns of Chance below;
And, now and then, a Sigh he stole,
And Tears began to flow.
The mighty Master smil'd to see
That Love was in the next Degree:
'Twas but a Kindred-Sound to move;
For Pity melts the Mind to Love.
Softly sweet in Lydian Measures,
Soon he sooth'd his Soul to Pleasures.
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AIR.

[With Flutes.]
War is Toil and Trouble,
Honour is an airy Bubble,
Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying,
If the World be worth thy winning,
Think, O think, it worth enjoying:
Lovely Thais sits beside thee,
Take the Good the Gods provide thee.
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