Of direful Anger11, dash'd it down,

  And swore, departing in a huff,

  I'll make your lives like that d——d stuff.

    Too sure the Malediction fell,

  As every mortal wight can tell:

  For HUMAN LIFE, to this bless'd hour,

  Like Yorkshire Dip, is SWEET AND SOUR.

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 Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust.12 POPE.] 

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 The Poet has drawn his Jupiter according to the Homeric Model, in it's least divine features. Yet I wish he had not. The Yorkshire Dip (the mixture of sweet and sour) might have remained a type of Life, temper'd in like manner: not by the wrath but by the benevolence of Jupiter. 

  ... Who hath will'd

  That Pleasure be co-mate of Toil and Pain,

  Lest Joy should sink in listless apathy.

 ... Curit acuens mortalia corda,

 Nec torpere gravi passus fua Regna Veterno.

 GEORG. I. 

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