Their pleasant dwelling-place. Thrice happy Men And worship him; and in reward to rule Inform'd by thee, might know: If else thou seek'st 640 END OF THE SEVENTH BOOK. THE ARGUMENT. Adam inquires concerning celestial motions; is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge: Adam assents; and, still desirous to detain Raphael, relates to him what he remembered since his own creation; his placing in Paradise; his talk with God concerning solitude and fit society; his first meeting and nuptials with Eve; his discourse with the Angel thereupon, who, after admonitions repeated, departs. PARADISE LOST. BOOK VIII. THE Angel ended, and in Adam's ear Historian, who thus largely hast allay'd The thirst I had of knowledge, and vouchsaf'd Things, else by me unsearchable; now heard With glory attribúted to the high Creator? Something yet of doubt remains, When I behold this goodly frame, this world, Their distance argues, and their swift return Round this opacous Earth, this punctual spot, For aught appears, and on their orbs impose Repeated; while the sedentary Earth, That better might with far less compass move, So spake our sire, and by his countenance seem'd |