 | 1842 - 622 pages
...ye have made your god; Differing wherein from the idolater, But that he worships one, a hundred ye t Ah ! Constantine ! to how much ill gave birth, Not thy conversion, but that plenteous dower, Which the first wealthy Father gain'd from thee !" But the limits of this paper... | |
 | Charles Mills - 1822 - 408 pages
...to describe the holy beauty of the following lines ? — But he that worships one, an hundred ye ? Ah, Constantine ! to how much ill gave birth Not thy conversion, but that plenteous dower, Which the first wealthy father gained from thee! CARET'S TRANSLATION. Now was... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1822 - 402 pages
...ye have made your god, Differing wherein from the idolater, But that he worships one, a hundred ye ? Ah, Constantine !* to how much ill gave birth, Not thy conversion, but that plenteous dower, Which the first wealthy Father gain'd fromthee." 120 Meanwhile, as thus I sung,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1831 - 366 pages
...have made your god, Differing wherein from the idolater, % But that he worships one, a hundred ye ? Ah, Constantine ! ° to how much ill gave birth, Not thy conversion, but that plenteous dower, Which the first wealthy Father gain'd from thee." Meanwhile, as thus I sung,... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1833 - 520 pages
...ye have made your god, Diff'ring wherein from the idolater, But that he worships one, a hundred ye. Ah ! Constantine, to how much ill gave birth, Not thy conversion, but that plenteous dower Which the first wealthy father gained from thee ? * In describing the avarice... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1835 - 664 pages
...abbots became peers and princes, and the bishop of Rome both a temporal and a spiritual sovereign.*1 19 In a passage of the 19th canto of his Inferno, thus...so as to be both interesting and faithful : — Ah, Constantino ! to how much ill gave birth, Not thy conversion, but thy plenteous dower ^VTiich the first... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1842 - 450 pages
...ye have made your god, Differing wherein from the idolater, But that he worships one, a hundred ye ? Ah Constantine ! to how much ill gave birth, Not thy conversion, but that plenteous dower Which the first wealthy Father gain'd from thee !" Cory. IN THE PURGATORIO. "... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1842 - 428 pages
...ye have made your god, DifFring wherein from the idolater. But that he worships one, a hundred ye. Ah! Constantine, to how much ill gave birth, Not thy conversion, but that plenteous dower Which the first wealthy father gained from thee ?t In describing the avarice and... | |
 | John Wycliffe - 1845 - 456 pages
...of this supposed endowment of the church by Constantine, in the time of Sylvester, bishop of Rome. Ah, Constantine ! to how much ill gave birth, Not thy conversion, but that plenteous dower Which the first wealthy father gained from thee I Inferno, Canto xix. The following... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1845 - 440 pages
...ye have made your God, Diff 'ring wherein from the idolater, But that he worships one, a hundred ye. Ah ! Constantine, to how much ill gave birth, Not thy conversion, but that plenteous dower Which the first wealthy father gained from thee ? ' 8 He peopled his Hell, as... | |
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She who with seven heads tower'd at her birth, And from ten horns her proof of glory drew, Long as her spouse in virtue took delight. Of gold and silver ye have made your god, Differing wherein from the idolater, But that he worships one, a hundred ye? 
