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40 {| Vol. VII. Numb. 554. On the Improvement of the Genius, illuſtrated in the characters of Lord Bacon, Mr. Boyle, Sir Iſaac Newton, and Leonardo da Vinci.—We have not been able to learn, what papers in the Guardian were written by him, beſides Number 37, Vol. I. which contains Remarks on the Tragedy of Othello.
 * Vol. VII.||Numb. 525. On Conjugal Love.
 * Numb. 537. On the Dignity of Human Nature.
 * Numb. 541. Rules for Pronunciation and Action, chiefly collected from Cicero.
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 * Numb. 541. Rules for Pronunciation and Action, chiefly collected from Cicero.
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In the year 1715 Mr. Hughes publiſhed a very accurate edition of the works of our famous poet Edmund Spenſer, in ſix volumes, 12mo. to this edition are prefixed the Life of Spenſer; an Eſſay on Allegorical poetry; Remarks on the Fairy Queen, on the Shepherd’s Calendar, and other writings of Spenſer; and a Gloſſary explaining the Old and obſolete Words.

In 1718 he publiſhed a piece called Charon, or The Ferry-Boat, a Viſion. This, and Mr. Walſh’s Æſculapius, or Hoſpital of Fools, are perhaps two; of the fineſt dialogues we have in Engliſh, as well as the moſt lively imitations of Lucian.

Sir Richard Steele, in a paper called The Theatre, No. 15. has paid a tribute to the memory of Mr. Hughes, with which as it illuſtrates his amiable character, we ſhall conclude his life.

‘I laſt night (ſays he) ſaw the Siege of Damaſcus, and had the mortification to hear this evening that Mr. Hughes, the author of it, departed this life within ſome few hours after his play was acted, with univerſal applauſe. This melancholy