Persuasion on The Bride of Abydos: “…opinion as to the first-rate poets, trying to ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake were to be preferred, and how ranked the Giaour and The Bride of Abydos; and moreover, how the Giaour was to be pronounced, he showed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of…”
Persuasion on The Giaour: “…of opinion as to the first-rate poets, trying to ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake were to be preferred, and how ranked the Giaour and The Bride of Abydos; and moreover, how the Giaour was to be pronounced, he showed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest…”
Peter Ibbetson on The Giaour: “the shipwreck from "Don Juan," of which we never tired, and the "Giaour," the "Corsair," and "Mazeppa"”
Notes from the Underground on Manfred: “…all the people my shameful deeds, which, of course, were not merely shameful, but had in them much that was "sublime and beautiful" something in the Manfred style.”
Billy Budd on Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: “con over the latter portion of the first canto of _Childe Harold_, and ransack your intellectual repository for the liveliest visions of the Fairy Land”
Felix Holt, the Radical on Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: “And she reads Byron also, and admires Childe Harold--gentlemen of unspeakable woes, who employ a hairdresser, and look seriously at themselves in the glass.”