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Miscellanies in Verse and Prose

By Mr. Jabez Hughes
Hughes, Jabez (1684 or 5-1731)
  
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ÆTNA.
  
HORACE, Book II. Ode II.
  
HORACE, Book III. Ode XXIV.
  
HORACE, Book III. Ode IV.
  
The Description of a STORM, from the First Book of Statius's Thebais.
  
From Barclay.
  
MARTIAL, Book VI. Epigr. XIX.
  
AUSONIUS.
  
The Epithalamium of Stella and Violantilla.
  
THEOCRITUS, Idyll. XX.
  
An Epithalamium on the Marriage the Emperor Honorius with Maria, the Daughter of Stilicho.
  
CANTATA.
  
The WISH.
  
A Thought in Affliction.
  
The Morning Apparition.
  
To the Memory of John Hughes, Esq
  
EPIGRAM.
  
PERSEUS and PHINEUS.
  
On NOVEMBER the 4th 1712.
  
UPON READING.
  
ON THE DEATH of ARMINIUS.
  
On OUR Saviour's Incarnation.
  
From the GREEK of GREGORY NAZIANZEN.
  
From the same.
  
From the same.
  
From the same.
  
From the same.
  
The Epithalamium of Palladius and Celerina.
  
From the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
  
From the same.
  
From the same.
  
From the same.
  
From the same.
  
From the same.
  
From the same.
  
From the same.
  
From the same.
  
From the same.
  
SONG. From the same.
  
SONG. From the same.
  
Orphean Verses.
  
From Aratus.
  
From Euripides.
  
From the Greek.
  
From Lucan's Phars. Book I.
  
On the Death of a Young Lady, Mrs. E. D
  
From Marino's Adonis.
  
From the same.
  
HORACE, Book III. Ode 30, Paraphras'd:
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Claudian's Two Books against Rufinus a very corrupt and rapacious Minister under the Emperors Theodosius and Arcadius, A. D. 395.
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LETTERS ON Several Occasions.

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The WISH.

Ye Pow'rs, who sway the Skies above,
The Load of Mortal Life remove:
I cannot, lab'ring thus, sustain
Th'excessive Burthen of my Pain!
A Dance of Pleasures, hurrying by,
Enduring Griefs, a Glimpse of Joy;
With Blessings of a brittle Kind,
Inconstant, shifting as the Wind,
Are all your Suppliant has known,
Since first his ling'ring Race begun.
In Pity, then, pronounce my Fate,
And here conclude my shorten'd Date;
'Tis all I ask you, to bestow
A safe Retreat from future Woe!
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