"As you found your brain considerably affected by the cold, you were very prudent not to turn it to poetry in that situation; and not less judicious in declining the borrowed aid of a stove, whose fumigation, instead of inspiration, would at best have produced what Mr. Pope calls a <em>souterkin</em> of wit."
Letters by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield written to his Son Philip Stanhope Esq.
At least 32 entries in ESTC (1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1786, 1789, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1797, 1800). In 1774 fourteen letters were first published under the title <u>The Art of Pleasing</u>. See also <u>Letters to his Son Philip Stanhope</u>, 2 vols. (1774); then published in four volumes the same year. Additional letters collected in <u>Miscellaneous Works</u> (1777).<br>
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Reading David Roberts' edition of <u>Lord Chesterfield's Letters</u> (Oxford: OUP, 1998); and searching text from Project Gutenberg &lt;<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3361/3361-h/3361-h.htm">Link</a>&gt;<br>
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Consulting and citing, where possible, <u>Letters Written by the late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his son, Philip Stanhope, Esq.</u> (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1774). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3302871427&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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See also <u>Miscellaneous Works of the late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield: Consisting of letters to his Friends, never before printed, and Various Other Articles</u>. 2 vols. (London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1777). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3302943115&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;