The Adamus exul of Grotius; or The Prototype of Paradise Lost — page 12: what you’re looking at

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

DEDICATION. vil Such is the conviction that has prompted me to dedicate to you this excelling Drama of Grotius. No one will better appreciate its merits, and the extraordinary circumstances that have attended its history. After having filled all Europe with its renown during the seventeenth century, and having struggled during the eighteenth with a series of occultations almost unpa- ralleled in bibliography, it now, in the nineteenth, emerges the brighter for its prolonged eclipse, and glitters over the literary world. To whom can I more confidently submit this Prototype of Paradise Lost than to one, who by his recent reviews of Milton and his poetry, has achieved one of the loftiest triumphs of genius, which loves to sublimate the sublime, and beautify the beautiful. To you I feel indebted in no inconsiderable degree for the formation of my literary tastes and habits; and I would fain show my gratitude by emulating your finest compositions, ‘which I cannot rival. I remain, | Dear Sir, Yours very sincerely, FRANCIS BARHAM. COL @ DOO <S (c@