They have been considered as botchers of rags and remnants; their diligence has not been accompanied by judgment; and their taste inclined more to the frivolous than to the useful.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli
Our genteel botchers, well I see, Have given the maxims that you follow.
"Faust"
Goethe
For example, when he describes the war of the Anabaptists and the execution of John of Leyden, he sums up thus in a short pithy sentence the current opinion of his day among literary people and men of the world, on the already formidable sect of the Puritans: "Heare what it is to be Anabaptists, to bee puritans, to be villaines: you may be counted illuminate botchers for a while, but your end wil be: Good people pray for me."
"The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare"
J. J. Jusserand