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When in the elegant prosopopoeia which closes the ιloge, 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?— Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
This is perhaps an infelicitous piece of prosopopoeia, but it is interesting as illustrative of the idea of England in the eighteenth century as the home of stout-hearted freedom.— Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
The figure prosopopoeia is often but an impotent straining to impart poetic life; but the personification in in his motion is apt and effective.— Essays Æsthetical
The prosopopoeia which is adopted by Plato in the Protagoras and other dialogues is repeated until we grow weary of it.— Laws
The Old and New Testament, which by a 'prosopopoeia' are here called the 'two witnesses.'— The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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