He corrected versions, Excerpted passages, disallowed authenticities, ascribed works to their true authors, and exposed the pretensions of sciolists with a vigour which ought to have finally dispersed that unhallowed class.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Some of his single lines have already been quoted, and many more might be Excerpted from his work of the best Elizabethan brand in the quieter kind.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
The writer, alluding to the prior Life prefixed to the posthumous folio, asserts that, in borrowing something from Barnard, Barnard had also "Excerpted passages out of my papers, the very words as well as matter, when he had them in his custody, as any reader may discern who will be at the pains of comparing the Life now published with what is extant before the Keimalea Ecclesiastica;" the quaint, pedantic title, after the fashion of the day, of the posthumous folio.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli