Middlemarch on Ivanhoe: “I have bought one of his works myself--a very nice thing, a very superior publication, entitled 'Ivanhoe.”
Middlemarch on Waverley: “Waverley was new to Flora MacIvor; but then she did not fall in love with him.”
Middlemarch on Anne of Geierstein: “Anne of Geierstein' (pronounced Jeersteen) or the 'Maiden of the Mist, by the author of Waverley.”
Middlemarch on Rasselas: “He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it.”
Middlemarch on Gulliver's Travels: “deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do”
Middlemarch on Lalla Rookh: “She found time also to read the best novels, and even the second best, and she knew much poetry by heart. Her favorite poem was "Lalla Rookh."”
Middlemarch on Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea: “All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through "Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea," which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.”
Middlemarch on The Pilgrim's Progress: “She was disposed rather to accuse the intolerable narrowness and the purblind conscience of the society around her: and Celia was no longer the eternal cherub, but a thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the "Pilgrim's Progress."”
Middlemarch on An Essay on Man: “Minchin for his part liked to keep the mental windows open and objected to fixed limits; if the Unitarian brewer jested about the Athanasian Creed, Dr. Minchin quoted Pope's "Essay on Man."”