 Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.  The Thackeray Country - Page 170by Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1905 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - British - 1848 - 730 pages
...a want of hers that he did not try to gratify. Ah ! FanUas Fanitatum ! Which of us is happy in this world ? Which of us has his desire ? or, having it, is satisfied ? — Come children, let us shut up the bos and the puppets, for our play is played out. London : Bradbury... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1860 - 492 pages
...a wish of hers that he did not try to gratify. Ah, vanitas vanitatum ! Which of us is happy in this world ? Which of us has his desire, or, having it, is satisfied? " The brilliancy of Becky and the sufferings of Amelia obscure the unobtrusive excellence of Lady Jane... | |
 | 1864 - 798 pages
...eternal; it dies, in spite of the banns and the priest." "Vanitas vanitatum! which of us is happy in this world? which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?" Sorrow inspired him with the niood of Shakespeare's Richard II., and made him sit and talk of graves.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1868 - 452 pages
...want of hers that he did not try to gratify. Ah ! Vanitas Vanitatum ! which of us is happy in this world ? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied ? — come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. •HIM' London... | |
 | william makepeace thackeray - 1869 - 450 pages
...want of hers that he did not try to gratify. Ah ! Vanitas Vanitatum ! which of us is happy in this world ? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied ? — come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out Spottinvocde... | |
 | Alexander Maclaren - Baptists - 1873 - 384 pages
...fiction closes his saddest, truest book : " Ah ! vanitas vanitatum I Which of us is " happy in this world ? which of us has his desire ? or, " having it, is satisfied I" No wonder that with such a view of human life as that, the next and last sentence should be, " Come,... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1874 - 526 pages
...that we repeat in the same spirit with him : " Ah ! Vamtas Vanitatum ! which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire ? or, having it, is satisfied." TMA A LEGEND OF THE RHINE. By that bright historic river round which dreamy memories twine, In a quaint... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - Literature - 1880 - 772 pages
...than the conclusion of this same Vanity Fair? Ah, Manilas J'ani/at/im, which of us is happy in this world ? Which of us has his desire, or, having it, is satisfied ? Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. Does this strike... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 732 pages
...want of hers that he did not try to gratify. Ah ' Vanitas Vanitatum ! which of us is happy in this world ? Which of us has his desire ? or, having it, is satisfied ? — come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. AN'I) THE... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 906 pages
...a want of here that he did not try to gratify. Ah ! Vmitas Vanitatum ! which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied ? — come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. LOVEL THE... | |
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