...il primo ricco patre, which Milton has thus translated, Ah Comuntine, of how much ill was cau«e Nol thy conversion, but those rich domains. That the first wealthy Pope received df thoe. Two distinct Constantines are in thii passage confounded. The Grst emperor of that name was...

...church. Dante, in his IQth Canto of Inferno, hath thus, as I will render it you in English blank verse : Ah Constantine ! of how much ill was cause Not thy...but those rich domains That the first wealthy pope receiv'd of thee ! So, in his 20th Canto of Paradise, he makes the like complaint, and Petrarch seconds...

...kings be born of thee, whose dreadful might Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold. FROM DANTE. Ah Constantine, of how much ill was cause, Not thy...but those rich domains That the first wealthy pope receiv'd of thcc. .-..•.- ! . FROM DANTB. Founded in chaste and humble poverty, 'Gainst them that...

...kings be born of thee, whose dreadful might Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold.1 From DANTE. Ah Constantine, of how much ill was cause, Not thy...but those rich domains That the first wealthy pope receiv'd of thee'. From DANTE. Founded in chaste and humble poverty, 'Gainst them that rais'd thee...

...Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold. FROM DANTB. Ah Constantine, of how much ill was cassc, Not thy conversion, but those rich domains That the first wealthy pope receiv'd of thee. FftoM DANTB. Founded in chaste and humble poverty, 'Gainst them that rais'd thee...

...kings be bom of thee, whose dreadful might Shall awe the world, and conquer nations boldtFROM DANTEt. Ah Constantine, of how much ill was cause, Not thy...but those rich domains That the first wealthy pope receiv'd of thee||. * Hist. Brit. i. xi. " Diva potens nemorum," &C. t From Milton's Hist. Engl. Pr....

...the following translation of a passage from the nineteenth canto of the Inferno. ' Ah Constantino ! of how much ill was cause ' Not thy conversion, but...domains ' That the first wealthy pope received of thee !' Milton refers to a similar passage in the twenty ninth canto of Paradise, which is thus rendered...

...born of thee, whose dreadful might Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold. J~llO.ll DAJfTEi AH, Constantine, of how much ill was cause, Not thy...but those rich domains That the first wealthy pope receiv'd of thee. FOUNDED in chaste and humble poverty, 'Gainst them that rais'd thee dost thou lift...

...kings be born of thee, whose dreadful might Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold.b DANTE." Ah Constantine, of how much ill was cause, Not thy...but those rich domains That the first wealthy pope receiv'd of thee.d DANTE/ Founded in chaste and humble poverty, 'Gainst them that rais'd thee dost...

...nineteenth Canto of Inferno hath thus, as I will render it you in English blank verse ; Ah Constantino ! of how much ill was cause, Not thy conversion, but...domains That the first wealthy pope received of thee ! So, in his twentieth Canto of Paradise, he makes the like complaint, and Petrarch seconds him in...