“And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.”

—  Alexander Pope

Source: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 57.

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eighteenth century English poet 1688–1744

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