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George Stepney
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“And martyrs, when the joyful crown is given, Forget the pain by which they purchased heaven.”
George Stepney (1663–1707) said by 1707 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To King James II, upon his Accession to the Throne", in The Third Part of Miscellany Poems, published by Dryden, 5th ed. (London: printed for J. Tonson, 1727), p. 292
“One who, to all the heights of learning bred, Read books and men, and practiced what he read.”
George Stepney (1663–1707) said by 1707 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To the Earl of Carlisle, upon the Death of his Son before Luxemburg", in The Third Part of Miscellany Poems (1727), p. 131