 On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name. The decent Knight retir'd with sober rage, Withdrew his hand, and clos'd the pompous page. But...  Lives of Scottish Poets - Page 56by Joseph Robertson - 1822 - 378 pagesFull view - About this book
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...to side ; But as in graceful act, with awful eye, Composed he stood, bold Benson thrust him by : 110 On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name. The decent knight retired with sober rage, Withdrew his hand, and closed the pompous... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 474 pages
...to side ; But as in graceful act, with awful eye so Compos'd he stood, bold Benson thrust him by : On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnson's name. The decent Knight retired with sober rage, Withdrew his hand, and clos'd the pompous... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Scotland - 1881 - 512 pages
...of the polite world, extinguished Johnston's fame for ever, though aiming at Benson's taste : — " On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name." It is an awful testimony to the despotic power of ruling geniuses, that though a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1882 - 544 pages
...1742]. But as in graceful act, with awful eye Compos'd he stood, bold Benson ' (y) thrust him by : no On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name. The decent Knight retir'd with sober rage, Withdrew his hand, and clos'd the pompous... | |
 | John Milton - 1890 - 666 pages
...enthuI32 siasm for two such diverse poets as the English Milton and the Scottish Arthur Johnston : — " On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name." Not only was this an insult to Scotland ; but it had nipped in the bud all Lauder's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...to side*: But as in graceful act, with awful eye . Compos'd he stood, bold Benson4 thrust him by: no On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name. The decent Knight6 retir'd with sober rage, ' She Hows not both with the same Wind,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...to side*: But as in graceful act, with awful eye Compos'd he stood, bold Benson4 thrust him by: no On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name. The decent Knight5 retir'd with sober rage, ' She Wows not both with the same Wind,... | |
 | William Duguid Geddes - College verse, Scottish - 1895 - 434 pages
...of the polite world, extinguished Johnston's fame for ever, though aiming at Benson's taste : — " On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name ". It is an awful testimony to the despotic power of ruling geniuses, that though a... | |
 | 1895 - 422 pages
...of the polite world, extinguished Johnston's fame for ever, though aiming at Benson's taste : — " On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name ". It is an awful testimony to the despotic power of ruling geniuses, that though a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 530 pages
...JW Carlyle, 1889, p. 258. ' On Poets' Tombs see Benson's titles writ.' POPE, The Dttnciad,\\\.yii. ' On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name.' Ib. iv. ill. For Johnston see Boswell's Johnson, v. 95. See also post, POPE, 195;... | |
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