Quotes from Anthony Trollope's books, and about them
Barchester Towers on The Rape of the Lock: “In poetry, she was familiar with names as late as Dryden, and had once been seduced into reading "The Rape of the Lock;" but she regarded Spenser as the purest type of her country's literature in this line.”
Barchester Towers on Little Dorrit: “And when he got home, he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the Little Dorrit of the day with great inward satisfaction.”
The Way We Live Now on Robinson Crusoe: “Those scraps of paper, so easily destroyed, apparently so little respected, may hereafter be acknowledged to have had a value greater, so far greater, than their weight in gold! If "Robinson Crusoe" had been lost!”
Doctor Thorne on Hamlet: “made such a comparison between Louis Scatcherd and Frank Gresham as Hamlet made between the dead and live king. It was Hyperion to a satyr.”
The Last Chronicle of Barset on The Odyssey: “There were there two odd volumes of Euripides, a Greek Testament, an Odyssey, a duodecimo Pindar, and a miniature Anacreon.”
The Last Chronicle of Barset on Iliad: “He had a mutton chop at home that evening, and spent his time in endeavouring to read out loud to himself certain passages from the Iliad;--for he had bought a Homer as he returned from his office.”
The Last Chronicle of Barset on Lycidas: “He knew "Lycidas" by heart; and as for Thumble, he felt quite sure that Thumble was incompetent of understanding a single allusion in that divine poem.”
The Last Chronicle of Barset on Hamlet: “As he thought of this he quoted to himself against himself Hamlet's often-quoted appeal to the two portraits.”