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"In countries where we have lived for centuries, we are still cried down as strangers," it reads.
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Old Tom Morris with Young Tom Morris ca. 1870-75 The word golf was first recorded in the 15th century, appearing twice in an Act of the Scots Parliament of 6 March 1457, in the reign of James II. The Act, which ordered the holding of wappenschaws () four times a year for the purpose of archery practice, stated that "the fut bal ande the golf" (football and golf) were to be "vtterly criyt done" (condemned; lit. "cried down") and "nocht vsyt" (not engaged in; lit. "not used").
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In the "Author's Note" preceding the novel's 1927 reprint, Cabell observed that "Not many other volumes, I believe, have been burlesqued and cried down in the public prints by their own dedicatees"Figures of Earth (1927 edition), Author's Note. alluding to the fact that both Untermeyer and Mencken had publicly expressed dislike with the novel in comparison with Jurgen. A 1925 reissue included illustrations by Frank C. Papé. In Cabell's later years Figures of Earth fell, like most of his other works, into comparative neglect, but two paperback reissues in 1969 and 1971, with introductions by Lin Carter and James Blish respectively, brought it back into circulation.
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The performance that ensued (and curiously, John Milton might have been in the audience)Barbara Lewalski, The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography, Oxford, Blackwell, 2001; p. 43. was a theatrical disaster, a near riot in the faces of the King and Queen. Reacting to the disgrace, the University's vice-chancellor Henry Butts committed suicide by hanging himself on Easter Sunday, which was also April Fool's Day. When The Rival Friends was published later in the year, the title page stated that the play was "Cried down by boys, faction, envy, and confident ignorance, approv'd by the judicious, and now exposed to the public censure, by the author," which gives a taste of Hausted's style.
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We have not found it to be quite all that we wished in this > respect—and it would have been very extraordinary if we had, for our wishes > went far beyond reasonable expectations. But we have found it of a nature to > present to common understandings the poetical power with which the author's > mind is gifted, in a more tangible and intelligible shape than that in which > it has appeared in any of his former compositions. It is, therefore, > calculated to throw shame on the lying, vulgar spirit, in which this young > worshipper in the temple of the Muses has been cried-down; whatever > questions may still leave to be settled as to the kind and degree of his > poetical merits.
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