...side to side: But as in graceful act, with awful eye Compos'd he stood, bold Benson thrust him by: HO On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name. The decent Knight retir'd with sotfcr rage, Withdrew his hand, and clos'd the pompous...

...In the Dunciad the appropriate miniature allegory of "support" is compressed into a single couplet: On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this, on that one Johnston's name. (IV, 111-112) The same principle operates in the portrait of Italian Opera, who Pope...