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Mansfield Park · 1814
But 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.
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Our interpretation.
Shakespeare is described as so deeply woven into English culture that familiarity with him can grow without deliberate study. His language and ideas seem to reach people from all directions.
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