eternize
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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
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
V. last forever, endure forever, go on forever; have no end. eternize, perpetuate.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Not so," quod I; "let baser things devize To dy in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your vertues rare shall eternize, And in the hevens wryte your glorious name.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
Live she for ever, and her royall p'laces 580 Be fild with praises of divinest wits, That her eternize with their heavenlie writs!
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
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
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
Let dead names be eternized in dead stone, But living names by living shafts be known.
From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing 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
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
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
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
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