eternize
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Could you but gain the interested, could you eternize rapacity, and preserve inviolate the blot of the English name, what laurels would not your lordship deserve?
From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin
His loss preserv’d him; they that silenc’d wit35 Are now the authors to eternize it.
From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Thomas Stanley
And if my tongue eternize can your praise, Or silly speech increase your worthy fame, If ought I can, to heaven your worth can raise, The age to come shall wonder at the same.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow
Can it be possible that the brush which worthily painted Christ's agony, can be the same that descended to eternize redundant red fishwives, and call them goddesses?
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
The several unexpected victories obtained under your Excellency’s conduct will eternize the same unto all posterity.
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
A woman wove through the sea of red and up to the eternized president, accompanied by a pair of panting golden retrievers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2019
Let dead names be eternized in dead stone, But living names by living shafts be known.
From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan
The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Let dead names be eternized in dead stone, But living names by living shafts be known.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan
They built up, through their wisdom and patriotism, monuments which have eternized their names.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden
Although more enduring than parchment, tombs, pyramids, and temples, it is as far as they from truly eternizing the memory of what man has fancied and done.
From Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Putman Serviss
These should have some such eternizing epitaph as this: “For four years they kept the fates banded against them uneasy.”
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed