THE

WORKS

OF THE

ENGLISH POETS,

FROM CHAUCER TO COW PER;

INCLUDING THE

SERIES EDITED,

WITH

PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL,

BY DR, SAMUEL JOHNSON:

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON; J. NICHOLS AND SON; R. BALDWIN; F. AND C. RIVINGTON; W. OTRIDGE AND SON:

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AND SON AT CAMBRIDGE, AND WILSON AND SON AT YORK.

1810.

CONTENTS. .

VOL. X.

POEMS OF HUGHES.

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I HE Author's Life, by Dr. Johnson ...........
5 | Horace, Ode ii. Book iii ...........

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Greenwich Park

RECOMMENDATORY POEMS.

To Molinda ......

To Mr. John Hughes, on his Poem, entitled, A Letter to a Friend in the Country ............

The Triumph of Peace

Verses presented to a Lady, with a Drawing (by

To the Memory of Mr. Hughes. By Miss Judith the Author) of Cupid

Cowper .........

Horace, Book I. Ode xxji. ....

By W. Docombe

11. Ode xvi. To Grosphus......... ib.

To the Memory of Mr. Hughes. By William The Birth of the Rose. From the Freuch

rom the Freuch ... 29

Cowper .........

SIX CANTATAS, OR POEMS FOR MUSIC, AFTER THE MANNER
By Jabez Hughes......
By J. Bunce, late of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. 9

OF THE ITALIANS. SET BY MR. PEPUSCH.

In Memoriam viri clarissimi Johannis Hughes. ib. The Preface. To the Lovers of Music.

TS OF Music......... 30

Prologue to the Memory of Mr. Hughes ...... ib.

Cantata I. On English Beanty ...................

II. Alexis

The Triumph of Peace. Occasioned by the

ill. On the Spring.

Peace of Ryswick, 1697..........

IV. Miranda ................... ....... ...

The Court of Neptune. On King William's

V. Corydon ...........................

Retorp from Holland, 1699. Addressed 10

V{. The Coquet .........

the right honourable Charles Montague, esq.

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The Praises of heroic Virtue. From the Pray.
The House of Nassau. A Pindaric Ode ...... 16 ments of Tyrtæus. Translated in the Year
Ode on the Death of a Friend ...................

1701, on Occasion of the King of France's
Anacreon. Ode the third .......

breaking the Peace of Ryswick...............
The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe. From the Under the Print of Tom Britton. The musical
fourth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ......

Smallcoal-man ...
The Triumph of Love. In Imitation of Ovid, Song.--The fair Traveller .......
Amorum, Lib. I. Eleg. 2........................

A Cantata. Set by Mr. D. Purcell............... ib.

The Picture ...............

Sony. Would you gain the tender creature ..

Barn-Elms ...

Cupid and Scarlati. A Cantata. Set by Mr.
On the Friendship of Phoebe and Asteria ;
and the Sickness of the former ...............

ib. | A Cantata. Set with Symphonies by Signior

Song.–Fame of Dorinda's conquest brought .

22 Nicolini Haym.

To Octavia indisposed................................

ib. Pastora. A Cantata. Set by Mr. Pepusch...

Beauty and Music ............

ib. A pastoral Masque ........

Cupid's Review ....

ib. A Cantata. Set by Mr. Galliard ...............

To a beautiful Lady, playing on the Organ ...

23 | A Fragment...... .....................................

Sonnet, in French and English .................

ib. Claudianus ....
To a Painter......

ib. A Cantata. Set by Mr. Pepiisch ...........
To the Author of Fatal Friendship, a Tragedy 24 The Soldier in Love. A Cantata. Set by Mr.
On Divine Poetry ...........

ib. | Pepusch .........

Song.-Written for the late Duke of Glouces | An Ode in Praise of Music. Performed at

ter's Birth-day ........

ib. Stationer's Hall, 1703.........

On a Peacock, finely cut in Vellum by Molinda. | Apollo and Daphne, A Cantata. Set by Mr.

On Lucinda's Tea-table ...............

Galliard .........

The March ......................................

| A Thought in a Garden. Written in the Year

Written in a Lady's Prayer-book .............., ib. 170+ .... .........................................

Ode on the Spring. For the Mouth of May. ib. | A Wish, to the new Year, 1705 ..................

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