We all feel the unsurpassed delicacy and grace of the whole scene.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
The description of the married life of Romola and Tito is unsurpassed in George Eliot's novels for subtlety and depth of insight: notably the young wife's fond striving after complete inner harmony, her first, faint, unavowed sense of something wanting, her instinctive efforts to keep fast hold of her love and trust, and her violent, irrevocable recoil on the discovery of Tito's first faithless action.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
They were unsurpassed in this art; it outlived by many centuries the power and splendour of their cities.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker