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" The three primary requisites of poetical Genius; an eye that can see Nature, a heart that can feel Nature, and a resolution that dares follow nature. "
The misfortunes of Elphin, by the author of Headlong hall - Page 68
by Thomas Love Peacock - 1829
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Madoc, Volume 1

Robert Southey - 1806 - 276 pages
...people seem to have understood the poetical character so well as the Welsh : witness their Triads. " The three primary requisites of poetical Genius ;...Nature, and a resolution that dares follow Nature. " The three foundations of Genius ; the gift of God, man'* exertion, and the events of life. " The...
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Madoc, Volume 2

Robert Southey - 1807 - 260 pages
...people seem to have understood the poetical -character so well as the Welsh : witness their Triads. " The three primary requisites of poetical Genius ; an eye that can see Nature, a heart thai can 'feel Nature, and a resolution that dares follow Nature. " The three foundations of Genius...
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The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, Issues 123-126

English literature - 1808 - 560 pages
...employ the words which he has himself quoted from those maxims of ancient wisdom, the Triada, '• a heart that can feel nature, and a resolution that dares follow nature," he seek» the meed of distinction by cultivating the higher powers of the mind, and not like the Grevilles...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Esq. ...: Madoc

Robert Southey - 1815 - 330 pages
...people seem to have understood the poetical character so well as the Welsh : witness their Triads. " The three primary requisites of poetical Genius ;...Nature, and a resolution that dares follow Nature. " The three foundations of Genius; the gift of God, man's exertion, and the events of life. " The three...
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Letters on the scenery of Wales

Robert Hasell Newell - Letters - 1821 - 236 pages
...by others, and may not be altogether useless to those for whom it is intended — those who have " an eye that can see nature, a heart that can feel nature, and a boldness that dares follow nature."f * Mr. William Payne. f Welch Triads. See Jones's Relicks of the...
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The Cambrian Plutarch: Comprising Memoirs of Some of the Most Eminent ...

John Humphreys Parry - Wales - 1824 - 462 pages
...Triads contain a fine definition of genins, which it would be difficult to surpass. It is this : — " an eye that can see nature, a heart that can feel...nature, and a resolution that dares follow nature." Johnson's labonred definition seems much inferior. grovelling at the base of the column. Nor, because...
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The history of Wales

John Jones - 1824 - 384 pages
...life are circumstantial, and cannot be foundations of Genius. 2. " The three primary requisites of Genius : an eye that can see nature, a heart that can feel nature, and boldness that dares follow nature." Obs. Judgment is a requisite of Genius : but there are more than...
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The New-York Literary Gazette, and Phi Beta Kappa Repository, Volume 1

Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...opinion of the requisites of a Poet, wrote on the spot the following parody on his Bardic Triads: 1. The three primary requisites of poetical genius :...nature : and a resolution that dares follow nature. 2. The three final intentions of poetry. — Increase of goodness, increase of understanding, and increase...
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Cardiff Castle: A Poem, with Explanatory Remarks and Historical Extracts

Taliesin Williams - Castles - 1827 - 84 pages
...in short, whose principles and genius included all the requisites of the finely expressed triad, — "An eye that can see Nature, a heart that can feel...Nature, and a resolution that dares follow Nature." Should this little publication be deemed worthy of encouragement, I purpose directing my attention,...
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The Misfortunes of Elphin

Thomas Love Peacock - Fiction - 1829 - 264 pages
...wilt thou know thine eyes were blind To thy good fortune of tonight. Though, small and feeble, from my coracle To thee my helpless hands I spread, Yet in...that can see nature ; a heart, that can feel nature ; i and a resolution, that dares follow nature. . TRIADS OF POETRY. As'Taliesin grew up, Gwythno instructed...
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