Malt does more than Milton can to justify the ways of…

Malt does more than Milton can
to justify the ways of God to Man.

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A. E. Housman, quoted in Meyer Howard Abrams, Morton Wilfred Bloomfield, In Search of Literary Theory (Cornell University Press, 1972), p. 210.

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