Immediately opposite the church, and closely adjacent to the Manor House, is a very remarkable building, of considerable architectural pretension; as will be credited when it is told that Sir J. vanbrugh designed it!
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
So Horace Walpole remarks that vanbrugh wrote so well because he was familiar with the conversation of the best circles.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
The social influences were favourable to the undeniable literary merits, to the force and point in which Congreve's dialogue is still superior to that of any English rival, the vigour of vanbrugh and the vivacity of their chief ally, Farquhar.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen