The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . rove that his self-chosen labour was no mereplay work, no mere avoiding the hard work of life and theduller paths of service generally recognised only as of serioususe to mankind, for a game which was a mere pleasure,was a strong additional incentive to Leightons own highaspirations, inspiring him yet more to treat the developmentof his gifts as a moral responsibility. He considered italmost in the light of a debt owing to those to whom hewas attached by strong family affection, that he should provegood his cause. Though he fought and overcame,
The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . rove that his self-chosen labour was no mereplay work, no mere avoiding the hard work of life and theduller paths of service generally recognised only as of serioususe to mankind, for a game which was a mere pleasure,was a strong additional incentive to Leightons own highaspirations, inspiring him yet more to treat the developmentof his gifts as a moral responsibility. He considered italmost in the light of a debt owing to those to whom hewas attached by strong family affection, that he should provegood his cause. Though he fought and overcame, havingonce won his point, he did his utmost to satisfy his fathersambition for him, and to be eminent. On August 5, 1879, he wrote to Mrs. Mark Pattison, whowas compiling notes for an article on his life : My father,of his own impulse, sat down to write a few jottings, whichI cannot resist sending you, because I was touched at thethought in this kind old man of eighty. He, by the way, isa fine scholar, and was, at his best, a man of exceptional.
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