Alexander Pope
1714 · London, England · Twickenham · The scene in which the Baron, having drunk his coffee, thinks of a way to snip off a lock of the lady's hair
Coffee, (which makes the politician wise, And see thro' all things with his half-shut eyes) Sent up in vapours to the Baron's brain New Stratagems, the radiant Lock to gain.
The Rape of the Lock, canto 3
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Marcel Proust
1913 · Paris, France · The moment he put a piece of cake soaked in tea into his mouth
And all at once the memory appeared to me. That taste was the taste of the little piece of madeleine …
Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine …
In Search of Lost Time, vol. 1, Swann's Way
Charles Dickens
1837 · London, England · The hungry boy Oliver, having emptied his bowl of thin gruel in the workhouse
Please, sir, I want some more.
Oliver Twist, chapter 2
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