“There is a still deeper significance in the passage quoted, a little while ago, from Homer, describing Ulysses casting himself down on the

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and the corngiving land at the river shore⁠—the rushes and corn being to him only good for rest and sustenance⁠—when we compare it with that in which Dante tells us he was ordered to descend to the shore of the lake as he entered Purgatory, to gather a

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