By H.G. Wells, 1895 “The Time Traveller came to the place reserved for him without a word. He smiled quietly, in his old way. 'Where's my...

Stendhal, 1830 Mme de Rênal était si heureuse, qu’elle osa dire à Julien : – Vous ne gronderez pas trop ces pauvres enfants ? – Moi, les...

By Charlotte Brontë, 1857 Beautiful as Pauline Borghese, she looked at the moment scarcely purer than Lucrece de Borgia William...