Hours of Idleness
. A well-meaning, self-satisfied, dull, industrious man, he gave Byron excellent moral advice, to which the latter responded as the
fanfaron de ses vices
, evidently with great amusement to himself.
English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers
was brought out under Dallas's auspices, as well as
Childe Harold
and
The Corsair
, the profits of which Byron made over to him. Dallas distrusted his own literary judgment in the matter of Byron's verse, and consulted Walter Wright, the author of Horæ Ioniæ, about the prospects of