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 So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear; What thanks sufficient, or what recompence Equal, have I to render thee, divine 1 The thirst I had of knowledge, and vouchsafed 8 Things, else by me unsearchable; now heard When I behold this goodly frame, this world, Of Heaven and Earth consisting; and compute 16 Their magnitudes; this Earth, a spot, a grain, Round this opacous Earth, this punctual spot, For aught appears, and on their orbs impose That better might with far less compass move, So spake our sire, and by his countenance seemed With lowliness majestick from her seat, 17 25 34 42 |