Lockhart proceeds to
ridicule Tennyson for wishing to be a river, which is not what the
quoted lines state. Nor does Tennyson "ambition a bolder metamorphosis"
than his predecessors. Anacreon (Ode XXII) wishes to be a stream, as
well as a mirror, a robe, a pair of sandals and sundry other articles.
See Moore's interesting note.
155. _Non omnis moriar_. Horace, _Odes_, III, 30, 6.
156. _Tongues in trees_, etc. Shakespeare's _As You Like It_, II, 1, 17.
157. _Aristaeus_. A minor Grecian divinity, worshipped as the first to
introduce the culture of bees.
164. _Dionysius Periegetes_. Author of [Greek: periegesis tes ges], a
description of the earth in hexameters, usually published with the
scholia of Eustathius and the Latin paraphrases of Avienus and Priscian.
For the account of AEthiopia, see also Pausanias, I, 33, 4.
167. _The Rovers_. _The Rovers_ was a parody on the German drama of the
day, published in the _Anti-Jacobin_ (1798) and written by Frere,
Canning and others. It is reprinted in Charles Edmund's _Poetry of the
Anti-Jacobin_. The chorus of conspirators is at the end of Act IV.
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