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How then can the curious drawer watch, and as it were catch these lovely graces, witty smilings, and those stolen glances which suddenly like lightning pass, and another countenance taketh place, except to behold and very well note and conceit to like.
Nicholas Hilliard
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Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Born:
1547
Died:
January 7, 1619
(aged 72)
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Nicholas Hilliard was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England.
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