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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.
  
From the same.
  
From the same.
  
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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LETTERS ON Several Occasions.

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To the Memory of John Hughes, Esq

From thy long Languishing, and painful Strife
Of Breath with Labour drawn, and wasting Life,
Accomplish'd Spirit! thou at length art free,
Born into Bliss and Immortality!
Thy Struggles are no more; the Palm is won;
Thy Brows encircled with the Victor's Crown;
While lonely left, and desolate below,
Full Grief I feel, and all a Brother's Woe!
Yet wou'd I linger on, a little Space,
Before I close my quick-expiring Race,
Till I have gather'd up, with grateful Pains,
Thy Works, thy dear Unperishing Remains;
An Undecaying Monument to stand,
Rais'd to thy Name by thy own skilful Hand.
Then let me wing from Earth my willing Way,
To meet thy Soul in Blaze of living Day,
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Rapt to the Skies, like thee, with joyful Flight,
An Inmate of the Heav'ns, adopted into Light!
March 30, 1720.
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