Then she was shrinking again into herself, and blushing and working as hard as ever; but it had been enough to give Edmund encouragement for his friend, and as he cordially thanked him, he hoped to be expressing Fanny's secret feelings too.
"That play must be a favourite with you," said he; "you read as if you knew it well." "It will be a favourite, I believe, from this hour," replied Crawford; "but I do not think I have had a volume of Shakespeare in my hand before since I was fifteen.

I once saw Henry the Eighth acted, or I have heard of it from somebody who did, I am not certain which.

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.