The Adamus exul of Grotius; or The Prototype of Paradise Lost — page 10: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

TO JOHN A. HERAUD, Esa. Dear Sir, I HAvE taken the liberty of dedicating this astonishing Drama to you, because you have laboured more intensely than any of my Coleridgeian friends to promote the highest forms of literature and poetry in Britain. This noble design it was that animated you in all your contributions to the Ma- gazines and Reviews in which we have so often written. But to my mind, this glorious ambition is still more con- spicuous in the pages of the Montuty Maaazine since you undertook to edit it. It was this that prompted you to place this long-established and widely-circulated periodical on that high pedestal of catholicity so bravely illustrated by Grotius himself. When you first ventured on this measure, I admired the grand conception, the moral courage, and the intellectual truthfulness which urged you to a course so arduous and un- frequented; and I predicted, in contradiction to many literary associates, that this course would prove successful; nay, tri- umphant. Iknew that what Schlegel had done for Germany, in his famous “ Concordia;” and Guizot for France, in pe- COL @ DOO <S (c@