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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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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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[In vain we reach at Joys; in vain]

To Mr. D---
London, February 12, 1717.
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In vain we reach at Joys; in vain
Thro' Labours struggle to Renown;
Soon as the hop'd-for Good we gain,
And call the flying Bliss our own,
The with'ring Hand of cruel Fate
Throws all the brittle Building down,
And cuts the Thread of Life, and closes up our Date!
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Pompous awhile fantastick Man appears,
And idly vaunts his Span of Years;
Then yields to Heav'n the wand'ring Breath it gave,
And silent wastes, forgotten in the Grave!
So the gay Flow'rs, that on the bloomy Plain
Blush in their Morning Pride around,
At Noon, with sudden Show'rs of Rain,
Are wash'd away, and scatter'd on the Ground.
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