eternize

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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)

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

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

The hireling part of the press, notwithstanding, strove to eternize this awful and barbarous system, and thus assisted the minister to cherish the growth of Ignorance.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne