“ No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately. ”
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814). copy citation
Author | Jane Austen |
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Source | Mansfield Park |
Topic | flow good |
Date | 1814 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/141/141-h/141-h.htm |
Context
“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. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.”
“No doubt one is familiar with Shakespeare in a degree,” said Edmund, “from one's earliest years. His celebrated passages are quoted by everybody; they are in half the books we open, and we all talk Shakespeare, use his similes, and describe with his descriptions;”
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