eternize

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Many there were who sought to eternize their own Names by honouring his; some by Elegies, and other Devices, amongst the rest one made this Anagram upon his name.

From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by Parker, William Riley

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 Godwin, William

Being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios, formerly imprinted ... offered ... especially for the stirring up of heroick spirits, to benefit their country and eternize their names by like bold attempts.

From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Haring, Clarence Henry

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

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 Spenser, Edmund