TO THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA
BY A FRIEND OF THE LATE ELIA
This pentleman, who for some months past had been in a deing way, hath at length paid his final tribute to nature.
To say truth, it is time he were gohe humour of the thing, if there was ever mu it, retty well exhausted; and a two years and a half existence has been a tolerable duration for a phantom.
I am now at liberty to fess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friends writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you -- a sort of unlicked, indite things -- villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such; aer it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than to affect a naturalness (so called) that should be strao him. Egotistical they have been pronounced by some who did not know, that what he tells us, as of himself, was often true only (historically) of another; as in a ……（内容加载失败！）
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