Essays of Elia and Eliana, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Essays of Elia and Eliana, Vol. 2<br><br>This poor gentleman, who for some months past had been in a declining way, hath at length paid his final tribute to nature.<br><br>To say truth, it is time he were gone. The humour of the thing, if ever there was much in it, was pretty well exhausted; and a two years' and a half existence has been a tolerable duration for a phantom.<br><br>I am now at liberty to confess, that much which I have heard objected to my late friend's writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you - a sort of unlicked, incondite things - villanously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than to affect a naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.