 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...Turk Excellency's firman, I write my name, upon the book : ' I write my name — and end my"%ermon. О Vanity of vanities ! How wayward the decrees of Fate...weak the very wise, How very small the very great are ! What mean these, stale moralities, Sir Preacher, from your desk you mumble ? Why rail against the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...David's son, the sad and splendid, The treary King Ecclcsiast, Upon his awful tablets penned it, — Methinks the text is never stale. And life is every...comments on the old old tale Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, lluin. Hark to the Preacher, preaching still! He lifts his voice and cries his sermon, Here at St.... | |
 | Women's periodicals, English - 1862 - 378 pages
...about the old text as if to catch the odd ends of its glory. And yet he rhymes it truly — O vimity of vanities ! How wayward the decrees of fate are...weak the very wise, How very small the very great are ! There are hints of greatness in this mode of mind. Aristotle said that great men were always of a... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 432 pages
...Turk Excellency's firman, 1 write my name upon the book : 1 write my name — and end my sermon. O Vanity of vanities ! How wayward the decrees of Fate...weak the very wise, How very small the very great are ! What mean these stale moralities, Sir Preacher, from your desk you mumble ? Why rail against the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 436 pages
...Turk Excellency's firman, 1 write my name upon the book : 1 write my name — and end my sermon. O Vanity of vanities ! How wayward the decrees of Fate...weak the very wise, How very small the very great are ! What mean these stale moralities, Sir Preacher, from your desk you mumble ? Why rail against the... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1872 - 474 pages
...those who read them aright, enforces more effectually than these Letters the lesson, Vanitas vanitatum. 0 vanity of vanities ! How wayward the decrees of...weak the very wise, How very small the very great are ! LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS TO HIS SON. LETTER I.1 ON me dit, Monsieur ! que vous vous disposcz a... | |
 | 1873 - 610 pages
...in great part the lessons he would inculcate in verses which will DC within recollection : — ' O, Vanity of Vanities ! How wayward the decrees of Fate...weak the very wise, How very small the very great are ! ' Though thrice a thousand years are past, Since David's son the sad and splendid, Tho weary King... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1873 - 826 pages
...in great part the lessons he would inculcate in verses which will be within recollection : — "O, Vanity of Vanities ! How wayward the decrees of Fate...weak the very wise, How very small the very great are ! 522 S23 t. " Though thrice a thousand years are past, Since David's son the sad and splendid, The... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 614 pages
...the minster, is a delicate example. A more familiar chord is struck in ' Vanitas Vanitatum : ' — ' 0 vanity of vanities ! How wayward the decrees of...weak the very wise, How very small the very great are ! . . . ' Though thrice a thousand years are past Since David's son, the sad and splendid, The weary... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 618 pages
...David's son, the sad and splendid, The weary King Ecclesiast, Upon his awful tablets penned it, — ' Methinks the text is never stale, And life is every...comments on the old, old tale Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, Euin.' The only other representative poet of society belonging to our own time whose name occurs in... | |
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O Vanity of vanities ! How wayward the decrees of Fate are ; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are... 
