Was there ever such stuff as great part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you?—what?—Is there not sad stuff? what?—what?
to Fanny Burney, in Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay vol. 2 (1842) diary, 19 December 1785
Was there ever such stuff as great part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you?—what?—Is there not sad stuff? what?—what?
to Fanny Burney, in Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay vol. 2 (1842) diary, 19 December 1785