dave:
So he that flaggeth much, becomes to me
A _Choerilus_, in whom if I but see
Twice, or thrice good, I wonder: but am more
Angry. Sometimes, I heare good _Homer_ snore.
But, I confesse, that, in a long worke, sleepe
May, with some right, upon an Author creepe.
Ben Jonson: Horace, Of the Art of Poetrie (1640), p.25 (577 of 844 in
Works, vol. 2).
No nods yet ...
(Wiki has a piece on Homeric Nods -- seems it doesn't mean what I thought it
did.)
Robin
> http://www.archive.org/details/workesofbenjamin00jons
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