Vanity of Human Wishes, The
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Vanity of Human Wishes, The, a poem by Dr
Johnson, published 1749, in imitation of the Tenth Satire of
Juvenal. It owes its success to its moral seriousness and to its weighty but well-illustrated generalizations. Johnson comments on the vanities of various ambitions and cites the examples of Wolsey,
Clarendon,
Laud, and others. This was the first work to which he put his name.
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Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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