Daniel Deronda on Essays of Elia: “She was giving forth with charming distinctness the delightful Essay of Elia, “The Praise of Chimney-Sweeps,” and all were smiling over the “innocent blackness,””
The Octopus on Essays of Elia: “Marius the Epicurean," "The Essays of Elia," "Sesame and Lilies," "The Stones of Venice," and the little toy magazines, full of the flaccid banalities of the "Minor Poets," were continually in her hands.”
84, Charing Cross Road on Essays of Elia: “She asks for Lamb's Essays of Elia in a Macdonald Illustrated Classics edition; the shop finally finds her a copy.”
Moby-Dick on The Triumph of the Whale: “Not a fatter fish than he, Flounders round the Polar Sea.” —_Charles Lamb’s Triumph of the Whale_.”