 Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It is kept all the year long; it beareth the name...  John Heywood's new code readers. Standard 1-3, 5, 6 - 第101页作者：John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Eugene Chen Eoyang - 1993 - 370 页
...retains a vestige of the sense of airiness in the etymological origin of the word when he writes (1678): "The name of that Town is Vanity; and at the town there is a Fair kept, called Vanity-Fair. It beareth the name of Vanity-Fair, because the Town where 'tis kept is lighter than Vanity."... | |
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