[204]Ibid, lines 617-631.
[205]The Miltonic Deity is so much on the level of a king and man, that he uses (with irony certainly) words like these:
"Lest unawares we lose
This our high place, our Sanctuary, our
Hill."
His son, about to flesh his maiden
sword, replies:
"If I be found the worst in heaven,"
etc.
Book V. lines 731-742.
[206]"Paradise Lost," book VI. lines 425-430.
[207]When Raphael comes on earth, the angels who are "under watch, in honour rise." The disagreeable and characteristic feature of this heaven is, that the universal motive is obedience, while in Dante's it is love. "Lowly reverent they bow.... Our happy state we hold, like yours, while our obedience holds."
[208]Revelation, I. 12.
[209]"Paradise Lost," book I. lines 242-263.
[210]Ibid, lines 106-109.
[211]"Paradise Lost," book I. lines 61-65.
[212]Ibid, book II. lines 587-591.
[213]Ibid, book I. lines 612-615.