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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.
  
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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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BOOK I.
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BOOK 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.

[Who is fortunate in Love?]

Who is fortunate in Love?
He that's silent. Who subdues
Its Cruelty? He that can prove
Constant, and faithfully pursues.
Who does its pleasing Joys obtain?
The dauntless persevering Man.
Success then I can never fear,
Since I am silent, fix'd, and persevere.
What feeds the Flame, and what repells?
Smiles nourish it, and Frowning quells.
Since then nor Smiles nor Frowns I see,
My Flame must sure immortal be.
What is th'Event of black Despair?
Death. Then it is best to dye.
Live rather, and thy Fortune try,
And trust the Kindness of the Fair.
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Since gentle Calms a Tempest close,
Shall I my secret Love expose?
At a fit Time thou may'st. But still
If that shou'd never come? It will.
It will! alas! more speedy Death
Will come before, and stop my Breath.
These sad Surmises all are vain,
Still cherish Hope, and Truth maintain,
So brightly let thy Virtues shine,
That Constance, when she knows thy Pain,
May crown thy Passion, and be thine.
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