Note 42 — CHARLES CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
Reading edition
“Grammarian, painter, augur, rhetorician, 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!