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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)] Reference

Then there may be titles, and pensions, and marble monuments to eternize the men who have thus become great; -- but what becomes of you, and your country, and your children?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book] Reference

Let generous toils reward with health thy daysj Prolong thy prime, and eternize thy praife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference

I don't warrant the longevity though the hypostatic union of a fountain may eternize the tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

'The several unexpected victories obtained under your Excellency's conduct, will eternize the same unto all posterity.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681] Reference

The triumphal arches destined to eternize the exploits of our armies were menaced with sacrilegious ruin; and it was solemnly proposed to erect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets]

Not so, (quod I) let baser things deuize, to dy in dust, but you shall liue by fame: my verse your vertues rare shall eternize, and in the heuens wryte your glorious name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amoretti and Epithalamion] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century] Reference

You do not use to be so kind to everybody, let me tell you; for as they seek to eternize their names, it would be much better for them to be thus changed into hard stones than to return to earth and putrefaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference

There are events, the monuments of which, surviving every other memorial of human existence, eternize the nation to whose history they belong, after all other vestiges of its glory have disappeared from the globe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States] Reference

This is the time that must eternize me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great] Reference

My verse your vertues rare shall eternize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

“Encyclopædia,” to eternize their shame.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

He pants to eternize his name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference

They should eternize, but the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

And eternize the little life of man!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems (1828)] Reference

And eternize the little life of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetic Sketches] Reference

This other served but to eternize woe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paradise Lost] Reference

Shall eternize a glorious lasting name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Marvell]

How noble minds do eternize their fames.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor] Reference

What day should him eternize but the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Poems] Reference

This other served but to eternize woe, 60.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paradise Lost: The Eleventh Book] Reference

And if my tongue eternize can your praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia] Reference

Plate inscribed with a ship's name. eternize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States] Reference

That gave th 'unborn life, and eternize death.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Satires] Reference

I will write him a letter to eternize my BOTT.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 66] Reference

'Tis thine to raise, and eternize the song.    From Wordnik.com.  [The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author] Reference

Seek to eternize?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference

60: This other serv'd but to eternize woe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paradise Lost (1667)] Reference

Will eternize thy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psalms of King David Paraphrased, and Turned Into English Verse, According to the Common ...] Reference

And eternize, the birth, bloom, bursts of bliss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author] Reference