"Immortalize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ... it would immortalize you. I'll stand up in my place in the House of Commons and tell everything that has befallen soberly and seriously. ...
— Waste - A Tragedy, In Four Acts • Granville Barker
... the Agamemnon, a name which he did nearly as much to immortalize as Homer, is the great epoch of his professional life. But though his letters, which now rise to the rank of despatches, become more interesting to those who watch his progress as an officer, there are comparatively ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 • Various
... will not point out individually all those younger members of the profession who have accomplished what their fathers and elder brethren had attempted and partially achieved. We need not write their names on these walls, after the fashion of those civic dignitaries who immortalize themselves on tablets of marble and gates of iron. But their contemporaries know them well, and their descendants will not forget them,—the men who first met together, the men who have given their time and their money, ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... this dull and drowsy life, Far from all mundane tumult, that affrights me. If only for a moment I could shine, And blaze in splendor like a shooting star,— If only by a glorious deed I could Immortalize the name of Catiline With everlasting glory and renown,— Then gladly should I, in the hour of triumph, Forsake all things,—flee to a foreign strand;— I'd plunge the dagger in my exiled heart, Die free and happy; for I ...
— Early Plays - Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans • Henrik Ibsen
... gate-keeper, as our heroine left the yard, and then laughed as though he had committed a pun that would immortalize ...
— Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad • John S. Adams
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