Cyclops.

In the country of one-eyed men, the binocular man is king.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
The Idler, and breakfast-table companion, Volume 1

Nicholas Nickleby. By Boz. No. 1. Chapman and Hall. Bos, like a good angler, keeps dressing his hook with the same bait that has already taken so many fish; accordingly, we have here 'Pickwick" served up afresh; or, to use the expressive and graphic phraseology of a clever contemporary,—" thePickwick Papers refreshed, renovated' re-beavered; and, in short, made to look almott as good as new." This is an equivocal compliment, but a just verdict. Observing that the daily and weekly periodicals have already extracted the birth, parentage, and education of the hero, we shall select an amusing sketch of a crafty pedagogue, named Squeers, who is sojourning, pro. tern, at the Saracen's Head, SnowHill :

"Mr. Squeers's appearance was not prepossessing. He had but one eye", and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two. The eye he had was unquestionably useful, but decidedly not ornamental, being of a greenish grey, and in shape resembling the fanlight of a street door. The blank side of his face was much wrinkled and puckered up, which gave him a very sinister appearance, especially when he smiled, at which times his expression bordered closely on the villanous. His hair was very flat and shiny, save at the ends, where it was brushed stiffly up from a low protruding forehead, which assorted well with his harsh voice and coarse manner. He was about two or three and fifty, and a trifle below the middle size; he wore a white neckerchief with long ends, and a suit of scholastic black, but his coat sleeves being a great deal too long, and his trousers a great deal too short, he appeared ill at ease in his clothes, and as if he were in a perpetual state of astonishment at finding himself so respectable.


This qoute idk not my cup of tea although have quite fond memeroys of Charles Dickens Oliver twist "Please, sir, I want some more." remember that line, good one aye. Interestingly Dickens's work has been highly praised for its realism, comedy, mastery of prose, unique personalities and concern for social reform by writers such as Leo Tolstoy, George Gissing and G.K. Chesterton; though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, have criticised it for sentimentality and implausibility.