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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.
  
[dedication]
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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.
  
By a LADY.
  
[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.
  
THE PICTURE.
  
BARN-ELMS.
  
On the Friendship of Phoebe and Asteria; And the Sickness of the Former.
  
SONG.
  
To Octavia Indispos'd.
  
Beauty and Musick.
  
Cupid's Review.
  
To a Beautiful LADY playing on the ORGAN.
  
SONNET.
  
TO A PAINTER.
  
TO THE Author of Fatal Friendship, A Tragedy.
  
ON Divine Poetry.
  
SONG. Written for the Late Duke of Gloucester's BIRTH-DAY.
  
ON A PEACOCK
  
ON Lucinda's Tea-Table.
  
The MARCH.
  
Written in a Lady's Prayer-Book.
  
ODE on the SPRING.
  
HORACE, ODE III. Book III.
  
GREENWICH-PARK.
  
TO MOLINDA.
  
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.
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CANTATA I. ON ENGLISH BEAUTY.
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CANTATA II. ALEXIS.
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CANTATA III. ON THE SPRING.
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CANTATA IV. MIRANDA.
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CANTATA V. CORYDON.
  
AIR.
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CANTATA VI. THE COQUET.
  
THE PRAISES OF HEROICK VIRTUE.
  
Under the PRINT of TOM BRITON, the Musical Small-coal Man.
  
SONG. The Fair Traveller.
  
A CANTATA.
  
SONG.
  
Cupid and Scarlati.
  
A CANTATA.
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PASTORA,
  
AIR.
  
A Pastoral Masque.
  
A CANTATA.
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
CLAUDIANUS: In Epithalamio Honorii & Mariæ
  
A CANTATA.
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THE Soldier in Love.
  
AIR.
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AN ODE IN PRAISE OF MUSICK.
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GRAND CHORUS.
  
Apollo and Daphne.
  
A THOUGHT n a GARDEN.
  
A WISH TO THE New Year, 1705.
  
CANTATA.
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AN ODE FOR Vocal and Instrumental MUSICK.
  
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AIR.
  
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AIR.
  
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DUETTO for BRITANNIA and AUGUSTA.
  
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AIR.
  
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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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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.
  
BEAUTY,
  
MYRA.
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ALEXANDER's FEAST: OR, The Power of Musick .
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AIR.
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AIR.
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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.
  
A FRAGMENT.
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SERENATA, FOR TWO VOICES. On the Marriage of the Right Honourable the LORD COBHAM to Mrs. ANNE HALSEY.
  
DUETTO.
  
Recitative.
  
Recitative.
  
Recitative.
  
DUETTO.
  
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.
  
WHAT IS MAN?
  
From BOILEAU, In his First Epistle to Lewis XIV .
  
AN IMAGE OF PLEASURE.
  
THE PATRIOT.
  
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:
  
THE ECSTASY.

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BRITANNIA.

Recitative.

Great GEORGE! whose Azure Emblems of Renown
Are the fair Gifts of Britain's Crown,
Patron of my illustrious Isle!
Thou saw'st thy Order late exprest
With added Brightness on DEVONIO's Breast;
Meet the Companion Knight, and own him with a Smile.

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