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.
Source: Henry Crawford, in Mansfield Park, ch. 34 (1814).
-- Jane Austen, (Dec 16 1775-1817), English novelist; She was known as the masterful miniaturist; wrote Pride and Prejudice, 1813; Sense and Sensibility, 1811.