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Miscellanies in Verse and Prose

By Mr. Jabez Hughes

Hughes, Jabez (1684 or 5-1731)

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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.

MARTIAL, Book VI. Epigr. XIX.

The Epithalamium of Stella and Violantilla.

THEOCRITUS, Idyll. XX.

An Epithalamium on the Marriage the Emperor Honorius with Maria, the Daughter of Stilicho.

A Thought in Affliction.

The Morning Apparition.

To the Memory of John Hughes, Esq

PERSEUS and PHINEUS.

On NOVEMBER the 4th 1712.

ON THE DEATH of ARMINIUS.

On OUR Saviour's Incarnation.

From the GREEK of GREGORY NAZIANZEN.

The Epithalamium of Palladius and Celerina.

From the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

SONG. From the same.

SONG. From the same.

Orphean Verses.

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.

HORACE, Book III. Ode 30, Paraphras'd:

Claudian's Two Books against Rufinus a very corrupt and rapacious Minister under the Emperors Theodosius and Arcadius, A. D. 395.

LETTERS ON Several Occasions.

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From Lucan's Phars. Book I.

------ Sic, cum Compage solutâ
Secula tot mundi suprema coëgerit hora, &c.

Thus, when the last concluding Hour is come,
That finish'd Nature shall receive her Doom;
The loosen'd Fabrick shall in Pieces fall,
And antient Chaos triumph over all.
Stars shocking Stars, shall lose their wonted Way,
Cast from their Spheres, and drop into the Sea:
The Shores no longer shall the Waves restrain,
But on the Land admit the rushing Main;
The Moon shall cease her nightly Stage to run,
Usurp her Brother's Course, and thwart the Sun;
And the whole Frame, in wild Confusion hurl'd,
Shall mar the Union of the shatter'd World.