 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 pages
...thee, whose dreadful might Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold. FROM DANTE. AH, Constantino, of how much ill was cause, Not thy conversion, 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1875 - 560 pages
...Dante, in his 19th 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... | |
 | William Speer - 1875 - 284 pages
...according to JOHN MILTON, Reformation in England, b. I., the poet DANTE exclaims : " Ah, Constantine I To how much ill was cause, Not thy conversion, but those rich domains Which the first wealthy pope received of thee." Inferno; xix. 115-117. And ARIOSTO compares the grandeur... | |
 | William Speer - 1875 - 276 pages
...according to JOHN MILTON, Reformation in England, b. I., the poet DANTE exclaims : " Ah, Constantine 1 To how much ill was cause, Not thy conversion, but those rich domains Which the first wealthy pope received of thee." Inferno ; xix. 115-117. And ARIOSTO compares the grandeur... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1877 - 446 pages
...the exquisite figure of a marriage dower, which enriches the fruitful mother of a mercenary progeny : "Ah Constantine ! of how much ill was cause Not thy...rich domains That the first wealthy Pope received of thee."f We pass on to notice the deposing power of the lioman Pontiff, the logical development of the... | |
 | Philipp Schaff - 1877 - 976 pages
...Italian sovereign at its head. Hence the complaint of Dante (in Milton's rendering): ' Ah ! Constantino, of how much ill was cause, Not thy conversion, but...domains That the first wealthy Pope received of thee!' ATTEMPTS TO RESTORE THE PURITY OF THE CHURCH. Monasticism was an attempt in the Catnolic Church itself... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1877 - 968 pages
...empire with an Italian sovereign at its head. Hence the complaint of Dante (in Milton's rendering) : ' Ah ! Constantine, of how much ill was cause, Not thy...conversion, but those rich domains That the first wealthy 1'ope received of theel' ATTEMPTS TO RESTORE THE PURITY OF THE CHURCH. Monasticism was an attempt in... | |
 | John Milton - 1878 - 354 pages
...kings be born of thee, whose dreadful might Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold. DANTE. An Constantine, of how much ill was cause, Not thy conversion,...but those rich domains That the first wealthy pope receiv'd of thee. DANTE. FOUNDED in chaste and humble poverty, Gainst them that rais'd thee dost thou... | |
 | Arthur Elam Haigh - 1878 - 42 pages
...towards the Popes and Cardinals of his time, and beholds their greed and avarice, he cannot but exclaim Ah, Constantine ! of how much ill was cause Not thy conversion, but those rich domains Which the first wealthy Pope received of thee (Inf. 19, 115). Thus the de Monarchia proposes a comprehensive... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1879 - 630 pages
...that In tl*r •' ir. frme. Works, vol. 1. p. 11, ed. 1753. Ah, Constantine! of how much ill was ranse Not thy conversion, but those rich domains That the first wealthy pope received of thee. Then pass'd he to a flowery mountain green, Which once smelt sweet, now stinks as odiously ; This was... | |
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AH, Constantine, of how much ill was cause, Not thy conversion, but those rich domains, That the first wealthy pope received of thee. 
