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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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VOLUME the FIRST.

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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.

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

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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SONG.

[Wou'd you gain the tender Creature]

Wou'd you gain the tender Creature,
Softly—gently—kindly—treat Her;
Suff'ring is the Lover's Part:
Beauty by Constraint possessing,
You enjoy but Half the Blessing,
Lifeless Charms without the Heart.