“Yes, my dear Marina, I do love you, but if you wish to be my mistress, you must be only mine.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream, That, stirr'd with languid pulses of the oar, Waves all its lazy lilies, and creeps on, Barge-laden, to three arches of a bridge Crown'd with the minster-towers.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

But if you wish me to love you, could you but see how much I do love you, you would be proud and content.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

"I wonder," he said once, "if you had never met him would you have loved me?" "I do love you, Henri."
— from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Dear mamma, I do love you so much.
— from Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

Ó how múch I do líke | yóur solitárinesse!
— from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper

After I had read a little story for her yesterday, she put her arms about my neck and kissed me, saying, in her frank, impulsive way, 'Oh, Mrs. Morton, I do love you so!'
— from Cast Adrift by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur