, to which Hughes wrote the words, was produced with success at the Haymarket. In translations, in original verse, and especially in prose, he merited the pleasant little reputation that he earned; but his means were small until, not two years before his death, Lord Cowper gave him the well-paid office of Secretary to the Commissioners of the Peace. Steele has drawn the character of his friend Hughes as that of a religious man exempt from every sensual vice, an invalid who could take pleasure in seeing the innocent happiness of the healthy, who was never peevish or sour, and who employed his intervals of ease in drawing and designing, or in music and poetry.
| [No. 67] | Thursday, May 17, 1711 | Budgell[1] |
Saltare elegantius quam necesse est probæ.
Sal.
, in one of his
Dialogues
, introduces a Philosopher chiding his Friend for his being a Lover of Dancing, and a Frequenter of Balls