 The great defect of The Seasons is want of method; but for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another; yet the memory wants the help of order,...  The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 85edited by - 1781Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 522 pages
...to arrange his difeoveries, and to amplify the fphere of his contemplation. ', • The great defect: of the Seafons is want of method > but for this I...fubfifting all at once, no rule can be given why one mould be mentioned before another; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiofity is not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 244 pages
...combine, to arrange his difcoverics, and to amplify the fphere of his contemplation. The great defect of the Seafons is want of method ; but for this I...fubfifting all at once, no rule can be given why one mould be mentioned before another; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the euriofity is not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 258 pages
...his difcoveries, and to amplify the fphere of his contemplation. The great defect of the Seafons is i want of method; but for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances fubfifling all at once, no rule can be given why one fhould be mentioned before another; yet the memory... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 504 pages
...the fphere of his contemplation. The great defect of the Seafons is want of method ; but for this 1 know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances...fubfifting all at once, no rule can be given why one mould be mentioned before another; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiofity is not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...combine, to arrange his difcoveries, and to amplify the fphere of his contemplation. The great defect of the Seafons is want of method ; but for this I...fubfifting all at once, no rule can be given why one mould be mentioned before another ; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curlofity is not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 pages
...arrange his difcoveries, and to amplify the fphere of his contemplation. The great defect of the Seafont is want of method ; but for this I know not that there...fubfifting all at once, no rule can be given why one mould be mentioned before another ; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiofity is not... | |
 | 1793 - 738 pages
...combine, to arrange his difcoverics, and to amplify the Iphere of his contemplation. " The great dcfeft of the Seafons is want of method ; but for this I...not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances fubiifting all at once, no rule can be given why one fltould be mentioned before another : yet the... | |
 | 1782 - 682 pages
...amplify the fphere of his contemplation. The great defeci of theScafonsis want of method ; but for this 1 know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances...fubfifting all at once, no rule can be given why one ihould be mentioned before another; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiofity is not... | |
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...lives of the poets, is the following remark on the SEASONS. — " The great defect of the Seasons, is, want of method; " but for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many " appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one " should be mentioned before another ; yet the... | |
 | 1794 - 954 pages
...tempiation. ' f The great defect of the Sea/cut is want of method ; but for thh I know not that that TOI: remedy. Of many appearances fubfifting all at once, no rule can be given why one fltoddk гл tioncd before another ; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiofity is notatntdV... | |
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