 | Ralph Straus - 1910 - 460 pages
...Old Ballads. James Dodsley is generous enough & offered me terms that would have repaid my labours, but his brother (who, if you remember, had never much...of the bookseller in this affair, as I could make appear if I were to show you his letters ; but I don't desire to have it either repeated or remembered... | |
 | Nick Groom - 1999 - 310 pages
...Old Ballads: James Dodsley is generous enough and offered me terms that would have repaid my Labour: but his brother (who if you remember had never much...to desist: for the other has receded from his own offers.—And we are now quite off, as the trading term is.' " Johnson, on 29 November, went rather... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 2004 - 644 pages
...for the publication of the "Old Ballads" had broken down because RD who never "had much opinion ofthe work has I suppose persuaded him to desist: for the other has receded from his own offers. "JD, he says, has "shown too much ofthe bookseller in this affair," whereas "in our former engagement... | |
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You will perhaps be surprised when I tell you, that Mr. Dodsley & I have broke off all treaty on the subject of the old Ballads. James Dodsley is generous enough & offered me terms that would have repaid my Labour, but his brother (who, if you remember,... 