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...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 dost thou lift thy...

...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...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. W. vol. ip 7. edit....

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...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 those rich domains ' That the first wealthy pope received of thee !' Milton refers to a similar passage in the twenty ninth canto of Paradise, which...

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...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 those rich domains That the first wealthy pope received of thee ! So, in his twentieth Canto of Paradise, he makes the like complaint, and Petrarch...