 ... general relations of things. Compared with that of Fielding or Thackeray, his was merely an animal intelligence, ie, restricted to perceptions. On this ground his early education was more fruitful and less injurious than it would have been to a nature...  The American Exchange and Review - Page 1731872Full view - About this book
 | 1872 - 830 pages
...humanity having ever occupied him ; keenly as he observes the objects before him, he never connects his observations into a general expression, never seems...struggling, and did not starve any intellectual ambition. He never was and never would have been a student. My acquaintance with him began soon after the completion... | |
 | England - 1872 - 752 pages
...before him, he never connects his observations into a general expression, never seems interested in general relations of things. Compared with that of...more reflective and intellectual type. It furnished aim with rare and valuable experience, early developed his sympathies with the lowly and struggling,... | |
 | Frederic George Kitton - 1886 - 580 pages
...of things. Compared with that of Fielding or Thackeray, his was merely an animal intelligence, se, restricted to perceptions. On this ground his early...struggling, and did not starve any intellectual ambition. He never was and never would have been a student. . . . Whatever faults he may have committed, there... | |
 | Francis Espinasse - Literary Criticism - 1893 - 452 pages
...before him, he never connects his observations into a general expression, never seems interested in general relations of things. Compared with that of...less injurious than it would have been to a nature constituted on a more reflective and intellectual type. It furnished him with rare and valuable experience,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1904 - 800 pages
...of things. Compared with that of Fielding or Thackeray, his was merely an animal intelligence, te, restricted to perceptions. On this ground his early...struggling, and did not starve any intellectual ambition. He never was and never would have been a student. — LEWES, GEORGE HENRY, 1872, Dickens in Relation... | |
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