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" Bard, or Primitive Bard Positive, according to the rights, voice, and usage of the Bardic Conventions, whose office it is to superintend and regulate ; the Ovate, according to poetical genius, exertion, and contingency, whose province it is to act from... "
Transactions of the Cymmrodorion, Or Metropolitan Cambrian Institution - Page 115
by Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1822
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The Classical Journal, Volume 14

1816 - 466 pages
...Druid." In the Triads \ve are informed, that there are three orders of the primitive bards : " the ruling bard, or primitive bard positive, according to the...office it is to superintend and regulate ; the Ovate or Euvate according to genius, exertion, und incident, whose avocation it is to act on the principles...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 14

1816 - 442 pages
...In the Triads \ve are informed, that there are'lhret erder» of the primitive bards : " the ruling bard, or primitive bard positive, according to the...office it is to .superintend and regulate; the Ovate or Euvate according to genius, exertion, and incident, whose avocation it is to act on the principles...
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The Patriarchal Religion of Britain, Or a Complete Manual of Ancient British ...

David James - 1836 - 116 pages
...orders and their duties are thus described in the Institutes of Bardism :— of the Bardic Convention ; whose office it is to superintend and regulate ;"—the...poetical genius, exertion, and contingency ; whose function it is to act from the impulse of poetical inspiration ;—and the Druid according to the reason,...
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Letters on Welsh History

Samuel Jenkins - 1852 - 342 pages
...are the words, and which may bo translated " a bard regularly initiated and graduated." — ED. TR. t The particular duties of the three orders of Bardism,...according to poetical genius, exertion, and contingency, whoso province it is to -act from the impulse of poetical inspiration ; and the Druid, according to...
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The Cambrian Journal

1857 - 348 pages
...added from the " Institutional Triads:"— "There are three orders of the primitive bards: the ruling bard, or primitive bard positive, according to the...superintend and regulate; the ovate, according to genius, exertion, and incident, whose avocation it is to act on tbe principles of inventive genius;...
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Britannia Antiquissima ; Or, a Key to the Philology of History (sacred and ...

John Jones Thomas - 1860 - 258 pages
...confirms the seventy-first triad "as to the particular duties of the three orders " as follows : — " The three orders of primitive bards : The Presiding...usage of the bardic conventions, whose office it is to tuperintend and regulate; the Ovate, according to poetical genius, exertion and contingency, whose...
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Britannia Antiquissima, Or, A Key to the Philology of History ..., Volume 1

John Jones Thomas - 1866 - 250 pages
...confirms the seventy-first triad " as to the particular duties of the three orders " as follows :— usage of the bardic conventions, whose office it is...poetical inspiration; and the Druid, according to reason, nature, and necessity of things, whose duty it is to instruct." Again, among the ' Constitutions...
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The Traditionary Annals of the Cymry

John Williams - 1867 - 274 pages
...added from the " Institutional Triads:"— " There are three orders of the primitive bards : the ruling bard, or primitive bard positive, according to the...superintend and regulate; the ovate, according to genius, exertion, and incident, whose avocation it is to act on the principles of inventive genius;...
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