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See also:HUGHES, See also:JOHN (1677-1720) , See also:English poet and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born at See also:Marlborough, See also:Wiltshire, on the 29th of See also:January 1677. His See also:father was a clerk in a See also:city See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and his
grandfather was ejected from the living of Marlborough in 1662 for his See also:Nonconformist opinions. Hughes was educated at a dissenting See also:academy in See also:London, where See also:Isaac See also:Watts was among his See also:fellow scholars. He became a clerk in the See also:Ordnance Office, and served on several commissions for the See also:purchase of See also:land for the royal See also:dockyards. In 1717 See also:Lord See also:Chancellor See also:Cowper made him secretary to the commissions of the See also:peace in the See also:court of See also:chancery. He died on the See also:night of the See also:production of his most celebrated See also:work, The See also:Siege of See also:Damascus, the 17th of See also:February 1720.
His poems include occasional pieces in See also:honour of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William III., imitations of See also:Horace, and a See also:translation of the tenth See also:book of the Pharsalia of See also:Lucan. He was an See also:amateur of the See also:violin, and played in the concerts of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Britton, the " musical small-See also:coal See also:man." He wrote some of the libretti of the cantatas (2 vols., 1712) set to See also:music by Dr John See also:Christopher See also:Pepusch. To these he prefixed an See also:essay advocating the claims of English libretti, and insisting on the value of recitative. Others of his pieces were set to music by Ernest Galliard and by See also:Handel. In the masque of See also:Apollo and See also:Daphne (1716) he was associated with Pepusch, and in his See also:opera of See also:Calypso and See also:Telemachus (1712) with John E. Galliard. He was a contributor to the Taller, the Spectator and the See also:Guardian, and he collaborated with See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Blackmore in a See also:series of essays entitled The See also:Lay Monastery (1713-1714). He persuaded See also:Joseph See also:Addison to See also:stage See also:Cato. Addison had requested Hughes to write the last See also:act, but eventually completed the See also:play himself. He wrote a version of the Letters of See also:Abelard and Heloise . . . (1714) chiefly from the See also:French translation printed at the See also:Hague in 1693, which went through several See also:editions, and is notable as the basis of See also:Pope's " Eloisa to Abelard " (1717). He also made See also:translations from Nloliere, See also:Fontenelle and the See also:Abbe Vertot, and in 1715 edited The See also:Works of See also:Edmund See also:Spenser . . . (another edition, 1750). His last work, the tragedy of The Siege of Damascus, is his best. It remained on the See also:list of acting plays for a See also:long See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and is to be found in various collected editions of See also:British See also:drama.
His Poems on Several Occasions, with some Select Essays in See also:Prose
were edited with a memoir in 1735, by William Duncombe, who had married his See also:sister See also:Elizabeth. See also Letters by several eminent persons (2 vols., 1772) and The See also:Correspondence of John Hughes, Esq. . and Several of his See also:Friends . (2 vols., 1773), with some additional poems. There is a lohg and eulogistic See also:account of Hughes, with some letters, in the Biographia Britannica.
End of Article: HUGHES, JOHN (1677-1720)
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