Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an… — Jane Austen
Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere, one is intimate with him by instinct.
Mansfield Park · 1814
★ 1.3Provenance
Current citation
Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 34.
Original citation
Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1814, ch. 34.