For strength of imagination, delicate accuracy and suggestiveness of language, and harmony of versification, he is unrivalled, and almost Unapproached; and when the difficulties inherent in the subject of his great masterpiece are considered, the power he shows in dealing with them appears almost miraculous, and we feel that in those parts where he has failed, success was impossible for a mortal.
"A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature"
John W. Cousin
I have had recent anatomical plates brought me for inspection, and I have actually button-holed the book-agent, a being commonly as hard to get rid of as the tar-baby in the negro legend, that I might put him to shame with the imperial illustrations of the bones and muscles in the great folio of Albinus, published in 1747, and the Unapproached figures of the lymphatic system of Mascagni, now within a very few years of a century old, and still copied, or, rather, pretended to be copied, in the most recent works on anatomy.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
The way in which he manages the action of his plays shows a skill quite Unapproached by anything that had gone before, and more pronounced than that of many which came after.
"John Lyly"
John Dover Wilson