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Title: The Metropolitan : a monthly magazine, devoted to religion, education, literature, and general information
Year: 1853 (1850s)
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Subjects: Catholic Church
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : J. Murphy
Contributing Library: John M Kelly Library Rare Books - University of Toronto
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pastoral Munster.Our expectation was highly excited before we came in sight of this river, but itwas even more than sustained by the reality. At Youghal two objects particularly attracted us, the ruins of the fine old Col-legiate Church, a monument of the munificence of the Earls of Desmond, wholost a principality for their fidelity to their religion, but whose works, have notliterally followed them. The other attraction was the neighborhood of Raleighs house, and field,where the first Virginian potato was planted, and the first Virginia tobacco was pro-bably smoked. The house still stands, and the memory of the adventurous ownerlingers round it, many anecdotes are related of him, thereabout; such as that of aservant who found him smoking and without knowing the cause of the smoke,threw a vessel of water on him to quench the fire! We dont insist on the readerbelieving this, unless he is predisposed to the pleasant habit of believing rathermore than less. Irish Excursions. 215 .^;fc-v.
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COLLEGIATE C H U R C H , T 0 XT G H A L . Whoever has read the sixth canto of that continued allegory and dark conceit,the Faerie Q,ieene, by Edmund Spenser, Gentleman, hath probably been some-what puzzled by the story of the loves and jealousies of ceitain characters calledMolanna, Mulla guine, false Bregog, and the unkind Faunchin. Tothose who visit the Anvondhu, called of the Englishman, Blackwater, the conceitwUI no longer be dark, nor the allegory continued. They are all streams, neighborsor tributaries of this river, on which Spenser, like Raleigh, had got some thousands ofconfiscated acres, rightfully belonging to the Desmonds. Spensers admirable poemabounds with allusions which can be understood only in this spot. Here it wasfor the most part written, and the mythology of it is mainlv Celtic. Puck who has served Shakespeare so handsomely, is a naturalized Irish Faery, alto- 216 7mA Excursiojis. gether unknown to the Saxon superstitions. Ariel, also, tricksy and dainty asshe is

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