The prosopopoeia which is adopted by Plato in the Protagoras and other dialogues is repeated until we grow weary of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laws] Reference

Here the only refuge of our adversaries is to cry up a prosopopoeia (Schlichting.p. 627) But how do they prove it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

So the heavens and the earth are said to "hear," and the fields, with the trees of the forest, to "sing" and "clap their hands," by a prosopopoeia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

De Man called this biographical trope personification, prosopopoeia, literally "giving face" to an inanimate collection of words, transforming them into the features of a human life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur] Reference

Geoffrey teaches how to praise, blame, and ridicule; he gives models of good prosopopoeias; prosopopoeias for times of happiness: an apostrophe to England governed by Richard Coeur-de-Lion (we know how well he governed); prosopopoeia for times of sorrow: an apostrophe to England, whose sovereign (this same Richard) has been killed on a certain Friday.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

Dozens of refinements on standard descriptions hold meaning for ut pictura poesis but the matter is complicated since many medi - eval and Renaissance rhetoricians are in conflict over both definitions and examples for descriptio, charac - terismus, effictio, mimesis, notatio, informatio, diatypo - sis, prosopographia, prosopopoeia, and many other categories that demand varying amounts of formed concrete detail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

These prosopopoeia of Wisdom personified are found in much older books.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Jesus] Reference

And do you take seriously the city of Salente and the prosopopoeia of Fabricius?.    From Wordnik.com.  [System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery] Reference

Possibly, however, the addressing those bodies may simply be an instance of prosopopoeia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3] Reference

This is perhaps an infelicitous piece of prosopopoeia, but it is interesting as illustrative of the idea of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference

Yet in nearly every literature death has been personified, while no kindred prosopopoeia of life is anywhere to be found.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference

Diderot perceived it; I told him the cause, and read to him the prosopopoeia of Fabricius, written with a pencil under a tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists] Reference

Honest Pantagruel, not understanding the mystery, asked him, by way of interrogatory, what he did intend to personate in that new-fangled prosopopoeia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference

The same thing happened to the Romans, when military success took them out of Italy, -- a thing which the author of the prosopopoeia of Fabricius could not explain.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference

In his invocations to Epicurus, in his prosopopoeia of nature to man inviting resignation to death, in his descriptions of the immolation of Iphigenia and of the cow wandering in the fields in search of her lost heifer, there are a breadth, a grasp, and an epic grandeur, which recall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Initiation into Literature] Reference

When in the elegant prosopopoeia which closes the éloge, the King of England has recalled with arrogance the fatal day of Poitiers, ought he not instantly to have restrained that pride within just limits? ought he not to have cast a hasty glance on the components of the Black Prince's army? to examine whether a body of troops, starting from Bordeaux, recruiting in Guienne, did not contain more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men] Reference

The perpetual use of the article, besides its converting general terms into particular ones, contributes much to the force and beauty of our language from another circumstance, that abstracted ideas become so readily personified simply by the omission of it; which perhaps renders the English language better adapted to poetry than any other ancient or modern: the following prosopopoeia from Shakspeare is thus beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference

One is reminded here of Pascal's famous prosopopoeia: "I know not who has put me into the world, nor what the world is, nor myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Augustin] Reference

His prosopopoeia of the town of Ostend, ibid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works] Reference

Phoenician prosopopoeia soeur.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference

1. prosopopoeia A. foreshadowing.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

When in the elegant prosopopoeia which closes the eloge, the King of England has recalled with arrogance the fatal day of Poitiers, ought he not instantly to have restrained that pride within just limits? ought he not to have cast a hasty glance on the components of the Black Prince's army? to examine whether a body of troops, starting from Bordeaux, recruiting in Guienne, did not contain more Gascons than English? whether France, now bounded by its natural limits, in its magnificent unity, would not have a right, every thing being examined, to consider that battle almost as an event of civil war? ought he not, in short, to have pointed out, in order to corroborate his remarks, that the knight to whom King John surrendered himself, Denys de Morbecque, was a French officer banished from Artois?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]