[224] Romola, II, 523.
[225] Middlemarch, I, 179.
[226] Adam Bede, I, 245. It could not be said of him as it was of Vincy in the above connection,—“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”
[227] Letters, II, 501. In another he speaks of the fine irony of French criticism, which “instructs without wounding any but the vanitous person”: and adds that “England has little criticism beyond the expression of likes and dislikes, the stout vindication of an old conservatism of taste.” Ibid., 569.
[228] The Egoist, 43. (The “leg” of course referring to Mrs. Jenkinson’s famous epigram).
[229] The Egoist, 113.
[230] _Sandra Belloni_, 157.
[231] Ibid., 153.
[232] One of Our Conquerors, 415.
[233] Ibid., 195.