Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Francis Bacon, it will be seen that his intellectuality was of a character totally different from that of Shakespeare, and the absurdity of attributing the plays to him, will at once be realized. Critics have asserted that Shakespeare put no deep moral meaning into his writings; such criticism is shallow and idle. The poet has created a world of imagination - a real sensuous world filled with life, where everybody is at the highest pitch of vitality. Around this world is a demoniac, a superhuman covering. It is absurd to assert that these supernatural characters are introduced for stage effects only...
...tank has been improved a good deal during the fall. Shallow boxes have been put in, and the water will be only eight or nine inches deep. The whole arrangement is made so that the water may move with a freer current. Oars with full blades are at present used and apparently they can be driven faster with the present arrangement than oars with holes in them could be driven in deeper water. Full bladed oars are an advantage in that they are livelier in the water...
...these few years have in their quick passage told you their whole story or opened to you all their heart. It is not possible. They would not have been worth living if they had. They have perhaps seemed to complicate life and to divide life and to make life shallow. Be sure that is not their final power. The simplicity of life, the unity of life, the mysterious depth of life-these college years have not done their full work for you till they have brought you to all these...