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Foscolo has remarked that "when a great poet describes his own heart,
his picture of _Love_ will draw tears from the eyes of every sensitive
mortal in every age." And no one can read these effusions of deepfelt
virtuous affection without emotions of a happy tendency.
S.W. SINGER.
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ANNOTATED COPIES OF BISHOP ANDREWES' WORKS.
Acting on a suggestion given in previous number, I beg to state that I
shall be much obliged by the use of any annotated copies of the
following works of Bp. Andrewes, which I am engaged in taking through
the press:--_Tortura Torti; Responsio ad Apolog. Cordius Bellarmini;
Opuscula Posthuma; Two Answers to Cardinal Perron, &c.; Preces Privitae_.
JAMES BLISS.
Ogburne St. Andrew, near Marlborough.
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Minor Queries.
_Robert Innes, a Grub Street Poet._--Is there anything known respecting
a strange "madcap," one Robert Innes, who, according to a printed
broadside now before me, was a pauper in St. Peter's Hospital, 1787? He
was in the habit of penning doggrel ballads and hawking them about for
sale. Some of them have a degree of humour, and are, to a certain
extent, valuable at the present time for their notices of passing
events. In one of these now rare effusions, he styles himself "R.
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