eternize
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Yet, if his name you'd eternize, And must exalt him to the skies; Without a star this may be done: So Tickell mourn'd his Addison.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by William Ernst Browning
Chaucer is himself the great poetical observer of men, who in every age is born to record and eternize its acts.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
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
Farewell, forget mee not, continued deserts will eternize me vnto thee, thy full wishes shall bee expired when thy trauell shall be once ended.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse
Plate inscribed with a ship's name. eternize Make eternal.
From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward
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
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
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
Therefore at least admit us liberty, Even as thou hop'st to be eternized By living Asia's mighty emperor.
From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe
Thus should heroes be eternized in brass, or granite, or marble, while they are instinct with the glory of action, not when they are aged and fatten and grow bilious and use ear-trumpets.
From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea
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
