Childe Harold
.
"I have told him," said Wright, "that I have no doubt this will succeed. Lord Byron had offered him before some translations from Horace, which I told him would never sell, and he did not take them"
(
Diary of H. Crabb Robinson
, vol. i. pp. 29, 30). The connection between Dallas and Byron practically ended in 1814. The publication of Dallas's
Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron from the Year
1808
to the end of
1814 was stopped by a decree obtained by Byron's executors, in the Court of Chancery, August 23, 1824. But the book was published by the writer's son, the Rev. A. R. C. Dallas.