He had within his reach a prize far beyond his most sanguine hopes, and now, by the over-officiousness of his friends, he was in danger of losing it.

In this crisis Rogers and Moore called upon Murray, and made enquiries on the subject of Crabbe's poems.

"Oh, yes," he said, "I have heard from Mr.Crabbe, and look upon the matter as settled." Crabbe was thus released from all his fears.

When he received the bills for L3,000, he insisted on taking them with him to Trowbridge to show them to his son John.
It proved after all that the Longmans were right in their offer to Rogers; Murray was far too liberal.

Moore, in his Diary (iii.