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 Browning, William Ernst

My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name.

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

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 Jones, Edmund David

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 Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)

Julius Cæsar was noe less diligent to eternize his name be the pen then be the suord.

From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin