Of him who undertakes thus to personify a tale, the first demand is, that his Invention dwell on the firm basis of the story, on its most important and significant moments, or its principal actors.
In my dreamy moods, I like to personify an Hour and spell it with a capital.
In thinking of the pursuit of happiness I am inclined to personify happiness and then watch the chase, wondering whether the pursuer will ever overtake her, and what he'll do when he does.
You do notpersonify the hills, but the hills personify you.
Their presence, the presence of those who know what I was, and who yet love me tenderly, does not it, on the contrary, personify forgetfulness and pardon?
Is it not the height of folly to personify abstractions, to organize negative ideas, and then to prostrate ourselves before the figments of our own brain?
Did not the Pope personify living religion, intelligence to understand, justice based upon truth?
Did not that adorable, unoccupied, indolent, ignorant creature, who only knew how to defend her love, personify the Italy of yesterday?
The tendency to personify leads us to convert metaphor into fact, to invent a subject of this imaginary 'power,' and thus to create a mythology of beings to carry on the processes of nature.
Its application to brutes or to things is improper, unless we mean to personify them.
The occasions on which you ought to personify things, and those on which you ought not, cannot be stated in any precise rule.
The occasions when you ought to personify things, and when you ought not, cannot be stated in any precise rule.
It is in keeping with the imagery of these poems whichpersonify the city, to endow the very roads with fancied consciousness.
Passion and poetry, when they fire the imagination, do more than personify individual material things.
By fusing the separate objects in the crucible of a common emotion which in some way appertains to them all, they personify this grand unity, and so lift their theme into the region of the sublime.
Behold the good family, great and small,' the child is led to personify his fingers and to regard them as a small but united family over which he has control.
But it was the very life which he infused into his heroes that made it appear as if they could not personify any one but himself.
If Childe Harold personifies Lord Byron, who will personifythe poet?
The cuneiform inscriptions mention the seven black stones worshipped in the principal temple of Urukh in Chaldæa, which personify the seven planets.
But there is no race which can pretend to personify within itself the type to which it belongs.
There is in the human mind a tendency topersonify abstractions.
Among the Indonesian peoples who thus personify the rice we may take the Kayans or Bahaus of Central Borneo as typical.
And if Demeter did not personify the earth, can there be any reasonable doubt that, like her daughter, she personified the corn which was so commonly called by her name from the time of Homer downwards?
This is explained as meaning that the two women personify the day and night skies, but it does not account for the male body, which may represent the Duat.
Hehu and Hehut appear to personify fire, and Kekui and Kekuit the darkness which brooded over the primeval abyss of water.
Hercules-Apollo;--the name was compounded by the Tyrians, in order to personify the strength and power of their God of Fire.
They go a step further, and personify the two parties to the struggle.
They did not place gods over the different parts of nature, like the Greeks; they did not even personify the powers of nature, like the Hindoos; they paid their devotion to the actual material things themselves.
It was not for Corinne as it was not for Mignon, the two children of longing who, the one in French, the other in German literature, as it were personify enthusiasm for Italy.
Staël seeks to personify poetical poetry as opposed to psychological poetry, i.
You have now come to the very point at which I have been expecting to see you arrive, and at which I will put to you this question: Why do you personify the power to which you trace these products in the natural world?
Why do you personify this all-pervading and sufficient power of Nature?
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