How To Use Eternize In A Sentence
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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?
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
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Many of our leading statesmen are engaged in devising and furthering plans for the extension of its territorial area, thereby hoping to perpetuate and eternize its bloody existence, while the majority of our most distinguished divines find employment in constructing discourses, founded upon perverse expositions of sacred writ, calculated to establish and fix in the minds of the people the impression that slavery is a divine institution.
Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)
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The only artist I ever heard of who was disappointed and unrewarded for his labour in attempting to eternize the memory of Napoleon Bonaparte, was a German of the name of Schumacher.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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Egypt; and it so struck the fancy of the celebrated Dedalus, that from it he took the model of that renowned labyrinth which he built in Crete, and which has eternized [sic] his name, for one of the finest artists in the world.
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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As it is by his virtues that man may best hope to live in the memory of man, is there not something unnatural, something monstrous, in seeking to eternize here below, that of which the proper doom is obscurity and oblivion?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
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Yet finally, every age is individual; it has a moment of its own when its character has ceased to be general, and has not yet begun to be general, and it is one of these moments which is eternized in the poetry before us.
Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions
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King of the daylit-world, it became queen of the dimmer realms of night, and like a woman-queen it did not disdain to stoop and study its loveliness in the polished lake, and stooping thus it overhung the earth, a shadowy creature of gleam and gloom, an eternized cloud.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
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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
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
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That he did not hope for this temper in his age, the humour on both sides being so turgent, and extremely contrary to it, and the controversy debated on both sides by those 'who,' saith he, '_desire to eternize, and not to compose contentions_,' and therefore makes his appeal to posterity, when this paroxysm shall be over.
The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands
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Whereof I thoughte good to giue this aduertisemente: and waying with my selfe that by the publishing hereof no dishonour can dedounde to the illustre race of our noble kinges and Princes, ne yet to the blemishinge of the fame of that noble kinge, eternized for his victories and vertues in the auncient Annales, Chronicles and Monuments, forren and domesticall,
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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But the difference of age made no difference to the friendship which grew up between them in Oxford, a friendship only less enduring and close than that between Clough and Matthew Arnold, which has been "eternized," to use a word of Fulke Greville's, by the noble dirge of "Thyrsis.
A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1
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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.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality.
The Last Man
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She became a heavenly idea exciting emotions in him, instead of an earthly object productive of sensations; yet a correspondence of all that had been in the sensations was still seen, purged and eternized, in the emotions.
The Friendships of Women
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Devotion to the Muses, that wiser Princes Patron the Arts, and carry an indulgent aspect unto Scholars; but a desire to have their names eternized by the memory of their writings, and a fear of the revengeful Pen of succeeding ages; for these are the men, that, when they have played their parts, and had their exits, must step out and give the moral of their
Religio Medici
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Volume growing as big as the Bookseller at present was willing to have it, we shall reserve them to another time, they having already eternized their Names by the never dying Histories which they have wrote.
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
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We do not want to see Cervantes's days of poverty and struggle eternized in statues.
Castilian Days
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We suppose he wants to eternize his Memory by eating a Breakfast.
The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4
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Country, preferred from Earl to Duke of _New-Castle_; was a Person equally addicted both to Arms and Arts, which will eternize his Name to all Posterity, so long as Learning, Loyalty, and Valour shall be in
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
