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Only last night he reminded me of an illustration of the vanitas vanitatum of human fame and national gratitude, to be found over yonder in the necropolis.
Unlearn him his own cognomen, teach him another name, too late, too late. We cannot afford the delay." "I don't see why he should be called any name at all. He observes your signs just as well without." "If I had but discovered that at the beginning. Pity! Such a fine name too. Sir Isaac! /Vanitas vanitatum!/ What desire chiefly kindles the ambitious?
I've earned my end. He looked as though he was waiting for the clock to go on striking, half raising himself up in bed, with Miss Faith's arm under his head. He whispered to her then he couldn't speak by this time. 'It's twelve o'clock, he said. Then there came some words I've heard the priest say at Mass, 'Vanitas, Vanitatum, that was what he said.
He was sauntering to and fro with his hands behind his back, looking dingy in his black satin scarf, and dejected. Was he envying the Italian hero the obsequious reverence paid to his miner's shirt? Was he muttering to himself the usual consolation of the 'have- beens' VANITAS VANITATUM? Or what new fiction, what old love, was flitting through that versatile and fantastic brain? Poor Bulwer!
He did not speak flatteringly he did not pay compliments he watched her with discontented, longing eyes, and grew more inclined every moment, as he remembered his anticipation of a happy evening, to cry out in his heart vanitas vanitatum. And now came crying the forfeits.
Then he recalled one of Goethe's poems, entitled "Vanitas! vanitatum vanitas!" and he recited several time in German these two lines: "Nun hab' ich mein' Sach' auf nichts gestellt, Und mein gehort die ganze Welt!" This literally signifies, "Now that I no longer count on anything, the whole world is mine."
How beaming the smiles with which they reward the young gallant who comes among them for their congratulations! Vanitas, vanitatum! They are nearly all widowed, poor girls, but they don't know it not yet. The steamer laden with the wounded and the fell tidings of disaster is but a few hours away. Before the breaking of another day there will be none to smile in all their number.
"What, then?" said Aramis, blushing. "You have one at heart, Aramis, one deeper and more painful a wound made by a woman." The eye of Aramis kindled in spite of himself. "Ah," said he, dissembling his emotion under a feigned carelessness, "do not talk of such things, and suffer love pains? VANITAS VANITATUM! According to your idea, then, my brain is turned.
Though still an imitation, it is as significant as the most original work could be of Johnson's settled views of life. It was written at a white heat, as indeed Johnson wrote all his best work. Its strong Stoical morality, its profound and melancholy illustrations of the old and ever new sentiment, Vanitas Vanitatum, make it perhaps the most impressive poem of the kind in the language.
But it was for this, I take it, that His Holiness who hath a temper most uncommon earthly sent none to represent him at the Coronation of the King." The other shrugged his shoulders. "It lacked for naught in splendor; it was a day for Cyprus and for Nikosia." "Vanitas Vanitatum," droned a friar of the Latin Church who had been standing near enough to catch echoes of their speech.
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