Kenilworth by Walter Scott: “This is Wayland Smith's cave, a place of classic fame now; but as Sir Walter has touched it, I may as well let it alone, and refer you to "Kenilworth" for the legend.”
Ingoldsby Legends by Richard Harris Barham: “Did you ever read Thomas Ingoldsby's "Legend of Hamilton Tighe"?”
Yeast by Charles Kingsley: “What village feasts have come to, I fear, in many cases, may be read in the pages of "Yeast" (though I never saw one so bad--thank God!).”
Eclogues by Virgil: “Young gentlemen of all ages from nine to fifteen were to be found there, who expended such part of their energies as was devoted to Latin and Greek upon a book of Livy, the "Bucolics" of Virgil, and the "Hecuba" of Euripides, which were ground out in small daily portions.”
Hecuba by Euripides: “Young gentlemen of all ages from nine to fifteen were to be found there, who expended such part of their energies as was devoted to Latin and Greek upon a book of Livy, the "Bucolics" of Virgil, and the "Hecuba" of Euripides, which were ground out in small daily portions.”
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens: “…h-form boys to fag us as they do?" "No more right than you have to fag them," answered East, without looking up from an early number of "Pickwick," which was just coming out, and which he was luxuriously devouring, stretched on his back on the sofa.”
Iliad by Homer: “The shell, in which form all our dramatis personae now are, were reading, amongst other things, the last book of Homer's "Iliad," and had worked through it as far as the speeches of the women over Hector's body.”
Agamemnon by Aeschylus: “We're in the middle of that long crabbed chorus in the Agamemnon.”
The Birds by Aristophanes: “Then there's Pericles's speech coming on in Thucydides, and 'The Birds' to get up for the examination, besides the Tacitus."”
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “Why, when he first came I remember he used to read Herodotus for pleasure as I did Don Quixote, and couldn't have made a false concord if he'd tried ever so hard; and then I looked after his cricket."”
Books that mention Tom Brown's School Days (5)
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott: ““Tom Brown just suits mother, and me too, so I wish Mr. Hughes would write another story as good,” said Archie.”
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey: “the pages of "Tom Brown's Schooldays" show us what was no doubt the normal condition of affairs under Dr. Arnold”
The Country House by John Galsworthy: “the daily reading out of “Tom Brown's School-days””
To Let by John Galsworthy: “brought him Ivanhoe, Bevis, a book about King Arthur, and Tom Brown's Schooldays.”
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt: “She brings me a book called Tom Brown's School-Days, which is hard to read”