The early signs of Autumn are very sweetly described, in Personifying a day that will remind many of births and bridals, but still more of deaths; and wherever the sorrowing survivors may reside, they are on this day "kindred souls" with himself-though they be utter strangers- "They know me not, but mourn with me."
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
They try to be clear and simple and polished, and their trick of Personifying abstract qualities indicates the philosophical doctrine which was still acceptable.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
It may well be that I mean merely to regard myself sub specie eternitatis, in which case I am Personifying in the sense of free imagination.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry