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Miscellanies in Verse and Prose

By Mr. Jabez Hughes

Hughes, Jabez (1684 or 5-1731)

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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.

MARTIAL, Book VI. Epigr. XIX.

The Epithalamium of Stella and Violantilla.

THEOCRITUS, Idyll. XX.

An Epithalamium on the Marriage the Emperor Honorius with Maria, the Daughter of Stilicho.

A Thought in Affliction.

The Morning Apparition.

To the Memory of John Hughes, Esq

PERSEUS and PHINEUS.

On NOVEMBER the 4th 1712.

ON THE DEATH of ARMINIUS.

On OUR Saviour's Incarnation.

From the GREEK of GREGORY NAZIANZEN.

The Epithalamium of Palladius and Celerina.

From the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

From the same.

SONG. From the same.

SONG. From the same.

Orphean Verses.

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.

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.

I.

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 the same.

[Surprising Fair, whose lovely Face]

Surprising Fair, whose lovely Face
To Beauty's self imparts a Grace;
In whose inchanting Shape and Mien,
The Sov'reign Skill of Nature's seen.
Whether you speak, or laugh, or sing,
Or smile, or frown, or rest, or move,
Such Charms your Actions sweetly bring,
All Hearts are fir'd, and sigh with Love.

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No longer in a base Imploy,
Such Glories and such Virtues hide,
For Kings and Monarchs wou'd, with Joy,
Attend obsequious at your Side.