And he justified it by attributing to Bunyan a virile acceptance of life as a high and harsh adventure, while in Shakespeare he saw nothing but profligate pessimism, the vanitas vanitatum of a disappointed voluptuary.
His cry of vanitas vanitatum is itself only a harmless vanity.
You may cut the poor goat's rope and set him free, to roam where he will; but Vanitas has forged his own fetters, and there comes to him no blessed day of emancipation.
Vanitas can bear away with him his "lengthening chain" to his leafy groves; but Scripsit is confined to the torrid regions of his scanty garret.
You and your acts and the nature of things will be alike enveloped in a single formula, a universal vanitas vanitatum.
But under the pages of both there sounds incessantly the hoarse bass of vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas, which the reader may hear, whenever he will, between the lines.
There is Vanitas over the way;--he once wore just such pigmy affairs.
Down goes his coarse heel, crunch, upon the aristocratic toes of our friend; and observe how Vanitas writhes and limps, as the sudden contact with the lower animal has crushed all his pride and dignity out of him.
Now if Vanitashad not cultivated those excrescent sensibilities by assiduous compression, if he had thought more of big brains than little feet, his tattered, cowhided friend might have trodden harmlessly on his pedal phalanges.
Many monks were in the church, chanting in a deep chorus over and over again the same words: "Vanitas vanitatum.
Vanitas vanitatum, as he wrote on the pages of the French lady's album, and again in one of the earlier numbers of The Cornhill Magazine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vanitas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
