The swelt’ring clouds, whilst Heav’n appears
A circle fill’d with flame, and center’d with his fears.
Emb. 9. Book II.
Dr. Young has some lines on this subject which are by some much admired.—But tho’ the subject be the same, it is differently circumstanced.—Young’s is a general description of the last judgment, Quarles describes its effect on a single being who is supposed to have lived fearless of such an event.
————At the destin’d hour,
By the loud trumpet summon’d to the charge,
See all the formidable sons of fire,
Eruptions, earthquakes, comets, lightnings, play
Their various engines; all at once disgorge
Their blazing magazines; and take by storm