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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.
  
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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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BOOK I.
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BOOK II.
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LETTERS ON Several Occasions.
  
[In vain we reach at Joys; in vain]
  
[From ev'ry Quarter of the Sky]
  
[Life, like a Vision, glides away]
  
[When from the Lustre of the Light]

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From Marino's Adonis.

BOOK I.

I

Hear, Cytherea! beauteous Queen of Love,
The radiant Daughter of Imperial Jove,
Whose chearful Star, with Beams of pleasing Light,
Preludes the Morn, and ushers in the Night;
Who dart'st thy Rays and fruitful Fires, around
The glad Creation, with thy Blessings crown'd.
At Thy Approach, all Nature gaily smiles;
Of painful Life, thy Balm relieves the Toils.
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II

Soft Peace, 'tis thine, Sweet Charmer, to bestow;
To hush Debate, and lull the World below;
The double Janus' Temple Gates to bar,
Quell fierce Bellona, and compose the War.
For Thee, the God of Arms from Fight retires,
To glow, and languish in thy gentle Fires;
Resigns the pond'rous Shield, and dreadful Spear,
To win thy Love, and joyful revel here.
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