Vanity Fair on Humphry Clinker: “without, however, adding that it was the history of Mr. Humphrey Clinker.”
Vanity Fair on The Sorrows of Young Werther: “a country where Werther is still read and the Wahlverwandtschaften of Goethe is considered an edifying moral book”
Vanity Fair on Elective Affinities: “a country where Werther is still read and the Wahlverwandtschaften of Goethe is considered an edifying moral book”
Vanity Fair on A Dictionary of the English Language: “in the fly-leaf of a Johnson's Dictionary--the interesting work which she invariably presented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall.”
The History of Henry Esmond on The Essays: “where he tried to read, as his custom was; but he never knew what he was reading until afterwards he remembered the appearance of the letters of the book (it was in Montaigne's Essays)”
The History of Henry Esmond on Eikon Basilike: “The toilet was of silver and crystal; there was a copy of "Eikon Basilike" laid on the writing-table; a portrait of the martyred King hung always over the mantel, having a sword of my poor Lord Castlewood underneath it, and a little picture or emblem which the widow loved always to have before her…”
The History of Henry Esmond on The Christian Hero: “…told Harry Esmond about his old friend Dick the Scholar, who had got promotion, and was Cornet of the Guards, and had wrote a book called the "Christian Hero," and had all the Guards to laugh at him for his pains, for the Christian Hero was breaking the commandments constantly, Westbury…”