Given his form, the nod is implied?
Doug
On 25-Mar-10, at 4:04 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> 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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