Quotes from Jonathan Swift's books, and about them
Gulliver's Travels on A New Voyage Round the World: “to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."”
Night and Day on Gulliver's Travels: “He withdrew the finger that was still thrust between the pages of Gulliver, opened the book, and ran his eye down the list of chapters”
Jane Eyre on Gulliver's Travels: “Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word _book_ acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library.”
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”
Bleak House on Gulliver's Travels: “in hooking one, hook all and bear them off as Lemuel Gulliver bore away the stately fleet of the majestic Lilliput.”