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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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1.

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]

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VERSES To the Memory of Mr. HUGHES.

[If for Our-selves the Tears profusely flow]

[From thy long Languishing, and painful Strife]

[Immortal Bard! tho' from the World retir'd]

PROLOGUE To the Memory of Mr. HUGHES.

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To Mr. JOHN HUGHES, On his POEM, entitled, The Triumph of Peace .

THE Triumph of Peace: Occasion'd by the PEACE of RESWICK, 1697.

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.

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SIX CANTATA'S OR Poems for Musick.

I.

CANTATA I. ON ENGLISH BEAUTY.

II.

CANTATA II. ALEXIS.

III.

CANTATA III. ON THE SPRING.

IV.

CANTATA IV. MIRANDA.

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V.

CANTATA V. CORYDON.

VI.

CANTATA VI. THE COQUET.

THE PRAISES OF HEROICK VIRTUE.

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

SONG. The Fair Traveller.

Cupid and Scarlati.

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A Pastoral Masque.

CLAUDIANUS: In Epithalamio Honorii & Mariæ

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THE Soldier in Love.

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AN ODE IN PRAISE OF MUSICK.

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II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

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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2.

VOLUME the SECOND.

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POEMS ON Several Occasions.

DIALOGUE FROM THE French of Monsieur De la Motte.

VENUS and ADONIS,

CANTATA. PASTORAL.

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ALEXANDER's FEAST: OR, The Power of Musick .

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II.

III.

IV.

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VI.

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VII.

VIII.

IX.

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.

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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.

From BOILEAU, In his First Epistle to Lewis XIV .

AN IMAGE OF PLEASURE.

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:

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THE PRAISES OF HEROICK VIRTUE.

From the Fragments of Tyrtæus.

Translated in the Year 1701, on Occasion of the King of France's breaking the Peace of Reswick.

O Spartan Youths! what fascinating Charms
Have froze your Blood? Why rust your idle Arms?
When with awaken'd Courage will you go,
And Minds resolv'd, to meet the threatning Foe?
What! shall our vile Lethargick Sloth betray
To greedy Neighbours an unguarded Prey?
Or can you see their Armies rush from far,
And sit Secure amidst the Rage of War?
Ye Gods! how Great, how Glorious 'tis to see
The Warrior-Heroe fight for Liberty,

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For his dear Children, for his tender Wife,
For all the valu'd Joys, and soft Supports of Life?
Then let him draw his Sword, and take the Field,
And fortify his Breast behind the spacious Shield.
Nor fear to die; in vain you shun your Fate,
Nor can you shorten, nor prolong its Date;
For Life's a measur'd Race, and he that flies
From Darts and fighting Foes, at home Inglorious dies;
No grieving Crowds his Obsequies attend;
But all applaud and weep the Soldier's End,
Who, desperately brave, in Fight sustains
Inflicted Wounds, and honourable Stains,
And falls a Sacrifice to Glory's Charms:
But if a just Success shall crown his Arms,
For his Return the rescu'd People wait,
To see the Guardian Genius of the State;
With Rapture viewing his Majestick Face,
His dauntless Mien, and ev'ry Martial Grace,
They'll bless the Toils he for their Safety bore,
Admire him living, and when dead adore.

Tyrtæus was General of the Spartans, in their Wars with the Messenians, and is said by his Martial Songs to have animated the Soldiers, and by those, as well as by his Conduct and Courage, to have led them on to Victory. He is mention'd by Sir William Temple and Lord Roscommon, as an Example of the wonderful Force of the ancient Poetry. He liv'd in the 35th Olympiad, about 640 Years before Christ, and is supposed to have been Contemporary with the Prophet Jeremiah.