She addressed, in audible and agitated tones, that Almighty and Beneficent Being of whom she was so faithful and pure a follower.

'And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

"Because God Almighty was cleverer.

No, God Almighty is my witness, I am innocent of your mother's death!

And though he had become, by degrees, so far resigned as to believe that every thing was for the besteven her deathhe now took up a strange and dismal fancy, that though the Almighty was a God of goodness and justice, it was quite impossible that He should love any beings so sinful and ungrateful as the human race.

The Almighty is here describd as remembring Mercy in the midst of Judgment, and commanding Michael to deliver his Message in the mildest Terms, lest the Spirit of Man, which was already broken with the Sense of his Guilt and Misery, should fail before him.

The other characters, the Almighty, the Son, Raphael, Michael, the angels and fallen spirits, are merely mouthpieces for Milton's declamations, without any personal or human interest.

Jove and his brotherhood of gods, tottering with the giant assailings, I can bear, for the soul's hopes are not struck at in such contests; but your Oriental almighties are too much types of the intangible prototype to be meddled with without shuddering.