Personifications, in LATH, are not as common as I thought because the emphasis has shifted from attributing human feelings and motion to inanimate objects, to dwell on human movements acting onto specific body-parts (as the tongue steping down the palate, in "Lolita" and "... down the marble steps of  memory's front porch, here sheslowly comes, sideways, sideways, the poor  lame lady..." in LATH)
I think that Nabokov considers them, simply, stylized images:: "Only by projecting thus on the screen of my mind those stylized images, could I allay the anguish of carnal jealousy.."
 
A host of trite examples with a moon looking down, a smiling sun and lapping waves seem to have escaped his scrutiny* - perhaps even those in which we find again variations about "the stunned  look on the face  of  a  clock  that has stopped.
 
There are many delightful and joyous motion-images: "the performance that a breeze was giving above a street sufficiently narrow for three pairs of long drawers to cross over on a string in as many strides or leaps" and multiple variations about typography that may belong to a separate category, probably related to the movement-body-thought kind: "Then  I drew a thick line underneath and a caravan of question marks...," one that has not been used simply as a rich dream-state analogy:"I saw my pages and notes flash past  like the bright windows of an  express train  that did not stop at my  station, with a battery-operated green engine that  emitted  at realistic intervals puffs of imitation  smoke, pursued a  circular course  through a  brambly picturesque nightmare  grove whose dizzy flowers nodded  continuous assent to al  the horrors of childhood and hell."
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I'll continue my search and, please, remember that I humbly welcome corrections and suggestions!
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* However, Nabokov indicates one that stems from the poetry of Pushkin: "recite that  Pushkin  thing about  waves lying  down in  adoration at her feet." and in this case it might be an ironical move. .
 
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