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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.

The Epithalamium of Palladius and Celerina.

From the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

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:

Claudian's Two Books against Rufinus a very corrupt and rapacious Minister under the Emperors Theodosius and Arcadius, A. D. 395.

LETTERS ON Several Occasions.

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SONG. From the same.

[When Preciosa's gentle Touch]

When Preciosa's gentle Touch
Awakes the Lute with spritely Art,
Her flying Fingers Charms are such,
They slide unheeded to the Heart.

And when her Voice, with sweet Surprize,
Melodious strikes the raptur'd Ear;
What gay Applauses fill the Skies!
What Pleasures gladden all that hear!

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Her Looks, her Virtue, and her Wit,
A thousand Hearts enthrall'd command;
While Cupid humbly at her Feet
Resigns his Arrows to her Hand.

Her sparkling Eyes, with blazing Day,
Oppress the rash Beholder's Sight;
And Love, by Her, his cruel Sway
Extends with unresisted Might.