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Oliver Twist or (The Parish Boy's Progress) by Charles Dickens.
Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838.

Sonnet 83 - I never saw that you did painting need, by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
Sonnet 83 I never saw that you did painting need

I never saw that you did painting need
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
The barren tender of a poet's debt;
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself being extant well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
This silence for my sin you did impute,
Which shall be most my glory, being dumb;

Sonnet 82 - I grant thou wert not married to my muse, by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
I grant thou wert not married to my muse

I grant thou wert not married to my Muse
And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book
Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise,
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days
And do so, love; yet when they have devised
What strained touches rhetoric can lend,

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