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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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VOLUME the FIRST.

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POEMS ON Several Occasions.

AN ODE. In the PARK at ASTED.

TO Mr. CONSTANTINE, On his PAINTINGS.

TO URANIA, On her Arrival at Jamaica.

[There let Time's creeping Winter shed]

VERSES To the Memory of Mr. HUGHES.

THE Court of Neptune.

THE House of Nassau.

An ODE On the Death of a Friend.

ANACREON, ODE THE THIRD.

The STORY of Pyramus and Thisbe

THE Triumph of Love.

On the Friendship of Phoebe and Asteria; And the Sickness of the Former.

To Octavia Indispos'd.

Beauty and Musick.

Cupid's Review.

To a Beautiful LADY playing on the ORGAN.

TO THE Author of Fatal Friendship, A Tragedy.

ON Divine Poetry.

SONG. Written for the Late Duke of Gloucester's BIRTH-DAY.

ON Lucinda's Tea-Table.

Written in a Lady's Prayer-Book.

ODE on the SPRING.

HORACE, ODE III. Book III.

GREENWICH-PARK.

A Letter to a Friend in the Country.

HORACE, BOOK I. ODE XXII.

HORACE, BOOK II. ODE XVI. TO GROSPHUS.

THE Birth of the Rose.

SIX CANTATA'S OR Poems for Musick.

THE PRAISES OF HEROICK VIRTUE.

Under the PRINT of TOM BRITON, the Musical Small-coal Man.

SONG. The Fair Traveller.

Cupid and Scarlati.

A Pastoral Masque.

CLAUDIANUS: In Epithalamio Honorii & Mariæ

THE Soldier in Love.

AN ODE IN PRAISE OF MUSICK.

Apollo and Daphne.

A THOUGHT n a GARDEN.

A WISH TO THE New Year, 1705.

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AN ODE FOR Vocal and Instrumental MUSICK.

DUETTO for BRITANNIA and AUGUSTA.

Last DUETTO with all the Instruments.

EPILOGUE. Spoken by Mr. MILLS at the QUEEN's Theatre, on his Benefit-Night, February 16, 1709; a little before the DUKE of MARLBOROUGH's going for Holland.

THE TENTH BOOK OF Lucan's Pharsalia, TRANSLATED.

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VOLUME the SECOND.

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VI.

Recitative.

The Prince, unable to conceal his Pain,
Gaz'd on the Fair,
Who caus'd his Care,
And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd,
Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again:
At length, with Love and Wine at once oppress'd,
The vanquish'd Victor sunk upon her Breast.

DUETTO.

1.
Phœbus, Patron of the Lyre,

2.
Cupid, God of soft Desire,

1.
Cupid, God of soft Desire,

2.
Phœbus, Patron of the Lyre,

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1 & 2.
How victorious are your Charms?

1.
Crown'd with Conquest,

2.
Full of Glory,

1 & 2.
See a Monarch fall'n before ye,
Chain'd in Beauty's clasping Arms!