Such work this volume strives, however imperfectly, to perform.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
But he makes the same mistake as Aprile, or at least as Paracelsus, and makes it in a greater degree; for he rejects all the human conditions of the poetic life: and strives to live it, not in experience or in sympathy, but by a pure act of imagination, or as he calls it, of Will; and he wears himself out body and soul by a mental strain which proves as barren as it is continuous.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
He notes also the constant recurrence of the same old themes, and the caprice of taste which strives as constantly to convert them into something new.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr