Possibly, however, the addressing those bodies may simply be an instance of prosopopoeia.
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And do you take seriously the city of Salente and the prosopopoeia of Fabricius?
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Yet in nearly every literature death has been personified, while no kindred prosopopoeia of life is anywhere to be found.
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The prosopopoeia which is adopted by Plato in the Protagoras and other dialogues is repeated until we grow weary of it.
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Honest Pantagruel, not understanding the mystery, asked him, by way of interrogatory, what he did intend to personate in that new-fangled prosopopoeia.
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Diderot perceived it; I told him the cause, and read to him the prosopopoeia of Fabricius, written with a pencil under a tree.
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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.
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And this, when one addresses inanimate things, is a figure which is called by rhetoricians, Prosopopoeia, and the Poets often use it.