Having personified Public Spirit, he makes her speak on the subject in the following manner: Let by my specious name no tyrants rise, And cry, while they enslave, they civilize!

"The occasions when you ought to personify things, and when you ought not, cannot be stated in any precise rule.

I liked to personify Satan, and to declaim the grand speeches of the hero-rebel, and many a happy hour did I pass in Milton's heaven and hell, with for companions Satan and "the Son", Gabriel and Abdiel.

Spain and its dependencies were solemnly placed under the protection of the "Immaculate Conception," thus personifying an abstract idea; and to this day, a Spaniard salutes his neighbour with the angelic "Ave Maria purissima!"

The Greeks even personified the sun as a divine charioteer driving his fiery steeds over the steep of heaven, until he bathed them at evening in the western waves.

[Illustration: Fig. 298.Carlovingian King in his Palace personifying Wisdom appealing to the whole Human Race.

Thus the word "Puck" has been identified with Poggetoad, under which form the devil was supposed to be personified; and hence probably originated such expressions as toadstools, paddock-stools, &c.

They give us vague phrases instead of images, and personified qualities instead of men.

As I prepared myself for the fray, and carefully donned a pair of well-stuffed pads and an enormously thick woollen jersey for protection, not so much against the cold as against the "flying ball," it flashed across me that I was about to personify the immortal Dumkins of Pickwick fame; whilst in my companion, the stout butler, it was impossible not to detect the complacent features and rounded form of Mr. Podder.

But to Raphael alone belongs the triumph of having personified the dry elements of learning in appropriate living forms.

That is, [S']iva's wife, Párvatí, who was supposed to personify his energy or active power.

Amalthea also personifies fertility.

The pride of life in him and in Lucifer, who personifies the creative fire, is aroused against the narrow asceticism of orthodox Christianity, embodied in the wan and feeble Titurel.

Sensible of this, the ancients personified the genius of the species in Cupid, notwithstanding his having the form of a child, as a hostile and cruel god, and therefore one to be decried as a capricious and despotic demon, and yet lord of both gods and men.

[Havock and Wrath, his maniac bride, Wheel o'er the conflict, &c.] These personified gentry I think are not in taste.

He has personified Germany and German ambition with an adroit egoism and the sentiment of his inheritance.

This chapter may be fittingly ended by a few extracts from, the Songs of Isis and Nephthys, which were sung in the Temple of Amen-R[=a] at Thebes by two priestesses who personified the two goddesses.

Virgil, Aeneid, iii. 578-582. Where the burning cinders, blown From the lips of the overthrown Enceladus, fill the air. Longfellow, Enceladus. EN'CRATES (3 syl.), Temperance personified, the husband of Agnei'a (wifely chastity).

His heroes, fair-haired and blue-eyed, stalwart and vigorous, relying on strength and longing for adventure, tender-hearted and contemplative when not aroused to violent action and bent on deeds of valor, personify the national ideal.

The Chorus was then in tragedy, and indeed in the higher comedy, what Schlegel well calls "the ideal spectator"a personified reflection on the action going on, the incorporation into the representation itself of the sentiments of the poet, as the spokesman of the whole human race.

This, I think, is evident from those very ancient carvings, and examples in stained glass, in which the Virgin, as the Church, stands on one side of the cross, trampling on a female figure which personifies Judaism or the synagogue.

"In the next example, you personifies ladies, therefore it is plural.

Mr. Shandy, I imagine, is designed to personify not "crack-brained learning" so much as "theory run mad."

He has personified motion in the cartoon of Pisa, portrayed meditation in the prophets and sibyls of the Sistine Chapel and in the Last Judgment, traced every attitude which varies the human body, with every passion which sways the human soul."

The major appeared in a new frock coat, in which he looked like a wax figure personifying the memory of his golden age.