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."”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table on Political Poems: “The simile is a very obvious, and, I suppose I may now say, a happy one; for it has just been shown me that it occurs in a Preface to certain Political Poems of Thomas Moore's published long before my remark was repeated.”
The Duke's Children on Irish Melodies: “Or Moore's Melodies? I am very fond of 'When in death I shall calm recline.' I think this equal to anything.”