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Title: The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Barrington, Russell, Mrs., d. 1933
Subjects: Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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DRAWINGS OF PLANTS AND FLOWERS 215 not vie with the greatest in the world—the genius he wasable to appreciate as Goethe did Shakespeares; but healso knew, as did Goethe, exactly the place his own artought to take; he knew that in his sense of style — which,in its true meaning, is the echo of Nature in her choicest,noblest moods,—in his sense of the beauty of the humanstructure, in his power of draughtsmanship, his work wassuperior to that of any of his contemporaries in England.The fact of the greatness of Leightons powers in somedirections challenges a comparison between his work andthat of the giants of old who possess enormous powerin all directions. No one knew so well as did Leightonthe place he must take when he entered the lists withthe giants: I have not and never shall have enormouspower. He writes in 1856 from Paris to his Master,Steinle :— Translation^ Paris, Rue Pigalle 21. My good and dear Friend,—Accidentally I had an idle morning when I received your dear lett

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