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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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WHAT IS MAN?

O son of Man! O Creature of a Day!
Proud of vain Wisdom, with false Greatness gay!
Heir of thy Father's Vice, to whose bad Store
Thy guilty Days are spent in adding more;
Thou propagated Folly!—What in Thee
Cou'd Heav'n's Supreme, cou'd perfect Wisdom see,
To fix one Glance of his regarding Eye?
Why art Thou chose the Favourite of the Sky?
While Angels wonder at the Mercy known,
And scarce the Wretch himself, the Debt immense will own!
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