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Excerpt from The Misfortunes of Elphin and Rhododaphne
Yet after admitting this and making allowance for it, the book seems to me amply endowed with charm and interest. In the first place it is here first that we see, full-blown and splendid, that extraordinary Peacockian style, the beginnings of which appear in jvigiztmare Abbey, and which, as has been noted, makes great advances, but does not attain to perfec tion, in Maid Marian. In the author's two first books this style, both in conversation and in narrative, is intermit tently perceptible, if indeed it is perceptible at all. In both Peacock writes sometimes quite ill; generally in a suffi cient but not very remarkable manner; seldom very well.
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