 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1886 - 684 pages
...plot. The idea which more than any other had a fascination for Dickens, and was apparently regarded by him as likely to be most potent in its influence...has been generally overlooked, is so marked that, so soon as attention is directed to it, men wonder it had not been noticed at once. Of course, in a... | |
 | American literature - 1886 - 886 pages
...plot. The idea which more than any other had a fascination for Dickens, and was apparently regarded by him as likely to be most potent in its influence...has been generally overlooked, is so marked that, so soon as attention is directed to it, men wonder it had not been noticed at once. Of course, in a... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1886 - 898 pages
...plot. The idea which more than any other had a fascination for Dickens, and was apparently regarded by him as likely to be most potent in its influence...has been generally overlooked, is so marked that, so soon as attention is directed to it, men wonder it had not been noticed at once. Of course, in a... | |
 | Periodicals - 1886 - 406 pages
...plot. The idea which more that any other had a fascination for Dickens, and was apparently regarded by him as likely to be most potent in its influence...of a wrongdoer watched at every turn by one of whom hehas no suspicion, for whom he even entertains a feeling of contempt. This characteristic, although,... | |
 | William Richard Hughes - England - 1891 - 496 pages
...him, and was apparently regarded by him as likely to be most potent in its influence on others. It was that of " a wrong-doer watched at every turn by...for whom he even entertains a feeling of contempt," and Mr. Proctor has certainly evolved a very suggestive and not improbable conclusion to the story.... | |
 | William Richard Hughes - England - 1891 - 480 pages
...favourite theme," which more than any other had a fascination for him, and was apparently regarded by him as likely to be most potent in its influence on others. It was that of " a wrong-doer watched at every turn by one of whom he has no suspicion, for whom he... | |
 | Henry Jackson - 1911 - 120 pages
...Proctor, " The idea which more than any other had a fascination for Dickens, and was apparently regarded by him as likely to be most potent in its influence...for whom he even entertains a feeling of contempt," Watched by the Dead, pp. 5,6: and " every conceivable form of his favourite theme had now been tried,... | |
 | Henry Jackson - 1911 - 118 pages
...Proctor, " The idea which more than any other had a fascination for Dickens, and was apparently regarded by him as likely to be most potent in its influence...for whom he even entertains a feeling of contempt," Watched by the Dead, pp. 5, 6 : and "every conceivable form of his favourite theme had now been tried,... | |
 | Norman Page - Novelists, English - 1999 - 456 pages
...Watched by the Dead. He points out that the idea which more than any other had a fascination for Dickens was that of a wrong-doer watched at every turn by one of whom he has no suspicion, for whom even he entertains a feeling of contempt; and that there are watchers and watched in nearly every one... | |
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... know, the point has not yet been noticed ; but I think there can be no doubt that one special idea had more attraction for him than any other, and seemed to him the most effective leading idea for a plot. The idea which more than any other had a fascination... 