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Immortalized .
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Examples
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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 Humphry Ward 1885
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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 2003
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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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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 William Painter
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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) William Winstanley
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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 Various
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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 1605-1682 1923
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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 William Dean Howells 1878
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We do not want to see Cervantes's days of poverty and struggle eternized in statues.
Castilian Days John Hay 1870
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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 William Rounseville Alger 1863
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