Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Mrs. A. T. Thomson

A thing resembling a goose-pie.”

[232]. Swift’s pun on this occasion was, that he might now “build houses.”

[233]. Hist. Vanburgh’s House, 1708.

[234]. This anecdote is pronounced by Mr. D’Israeli, in his “Curiosities of Literature” (1823), to be a mere invention.

[235]. Vanburgh died in 1726.

[236]. Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 76.

[237]. Coxe MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 76.

[238]. Coxe Papers.

[239]. Coxe Papers. See Appendix.

[240]. Coxe Papers, vol. xlvi. p. 148.