I have said what he appeared to me then.

As I knew him afterwards, and to the end of his days, he was a strikingly manly man, not only in appearance but in bearing.

The lustrous brilliancy of his eyes was very striking.

And I do not think that I have ever seen it noticed, that those wonderful eyes which saw so much and so keenly, were appreciably, though to a very slight degree, near-sighted eyes.
Very few persons, even among those who knew him well, were aware of this, for Dickens never used a glass.

But he continually exercised his vision by looking at distant objects, and making them out as well as he could without any artificial assistance.