 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 Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson - Page 59by John Kelman - 1903 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1848 - 730 pages
...kind and gentle ; or thought of 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...satisfied ? — Come children, let us shut up the bos and the puppets, for our play is played out. London : Bradbury & Ev&tt»- Pr,nten, Wh,trft-Utn.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1849 - 728 pages
...was not kind and gentle ; or thought of a want of hers that he did not try to gratify. Ah ! Fanitas Vanitatum ! Which of us is happy in this world ? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisficd? — Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. London... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1848 - 408 pages
...Vanitatam! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire ? or. having it, is sutisfied ? Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. 332 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY REFERENCE DEPARTMENT ' This book is under no circumstances to be taken... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1849 - 412 pages
...or thought of a want of hers that he did not tiy to gratify. Ah! Vanitas Vanilatum! Which of us if happy in this world ? Which of us has his desire ?...the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. THE END. EFCKT'S SECOND AlI'E ARANCE IN THE CHARACTER OF CLTTESiNEflTRA (p. x».) BATI RKCIHTLT PUBLISHED,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 602 pages
...Amelia, that was not kind and gentle ; or thought of a 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 1 or, having it, is satisfied 1 — Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our... | |
 | 1860 - 492 pages
...Amelia that was not kind and gentle, nor thought of a wish of hers that he did not try to gratify. Ah, vanitas vanitatum ! Which of us is happy in this...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
...ever, are all of no avail towards making love eternal; it dies, in spite of the banns and the priest." "Vanitas vanitatum! which of us is happy in this world?...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.... | |
 | 1864 - 30 pages
....' ' " he said, in closing his greatest work, " which of us is happy in this world? which of us 1ms his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, i subdued. for the play is played out." And that is the 1 key-note of his genius, — the yearning... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - 452 pages
...to Amelia that was not kind and gentle; or thought of a want of hers that he did not try to gratify. Ah ! Vanitas Vanitatum ! which of us is happy in this...the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. •HIM' London : 1'rinied by SMITH. EI.UEK & Co., Old Bailey, EC ... | |
 | william makepeace thackeray - 1869 - 450 pages
...to Amelia that was not kind and gentle; or thought of a want of hers that he did not try to gratify. Ah ! Vanitas Vanitatum ! which of us is happy in this...the box and the puppets, for our play is played out Spottinvocde &' Co., Printers, Krut-street Square, London. • «.1T ' iff ^ *v ... | |
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