Rope-dancer, conjuror, fiddler, and physician,
All trades his own, your hungry Greekling counts;
And bid him mount the sky—the sky he mounts!”
Gifford’s Translation.
Compare Dr. Johnson’s lines:
All sciences the hungry Monsieur knows,
And bid him go to hell—to hell he goes!
[43]See Johann Herbeck, by L. Herbeck, Vienna, 1885, page 165.
[44]The Unfinished symphony has the same orchestration.—EDITOR.
[45]Paul Rosenfeld: Musical Portraits, 1920.