Both Uses

personify
in
Wuthering Heights
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I did not know whether to resent this language or pursue my explanation; but he seemed so powerfully affected that I took pity and proceeded with my dreams; affirming I had never heard the appellation of 'Catherine Linton' before, but reading it often over produced an impression which personified itself when I had no longer my imagination under control.†
p. 19.4 *
'Five minutes ago Hareton seemed a personification of my youth, not a human being; I felt to him in such a variety of ways, that it would have been impossible to have accosted him rationally.†
p. 235.3

Definitions:

(1) (personify as in: She personifies wisdom.)
to be a perfect example of; or to embody an abstract quality
(2) (personify as in: She personifies her computer.)
to represent a thing or idea as having human traits
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)