John William Cousin, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature… (1910)
“ Paul (1746) , Dialogues of the Dead (1760) , which had great popularity, and a History of the Reign of Henry II., well-informed, careful, and impartial, but tedious. He is chiefly remembered by his Monody on the death of his wife. The stanza in The Castle of Indolence in which Thomson is playfully described (canto 1, st. lxviii.) ”
