Alcuni eminenti Victorians: ricordi personali nel mondo dell'arte e lettere; . e stato impossibile per qualsiasi speacurborn al suo compito di avere seguito Millais withoutbetraying in risposta una sensibilità a quelle deeperchords di sentire che il suo semplice parole hadtouched. Ma Leighton era incapace di resumingthe melodia incompiuta Millais aveva così finemente sintonizzati ;incapace per la sua abitudine e il temperamento di discardingwhat aveva preparato ; e così è accaduto che thediscourse ha consegnato, ma tuttavia non meno andpolished perfetta di quella che era la sua abitudine, ha lasciato la sua audience gravelydisappointed e totalmente indifferenti. L

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Some eminent Victorians: personal recollections in the world of art and letters; . e been impossible for any speakerborn to his task to have followed Millais withoutbetraying in response a sensibility to those deeperchords of feeling which his simple words hadtouched. But Leighton was incapable of resumingthe unfinished melody Millais had so finely tuned ;incapable by his habit and temperament of discardingwhat he had prepared ; and so it happened that thediscourse he delivered, though no less perfect andpolished than was his wont, left his audience gravelydisappointed and wholly unmoved. Of Leighton I had also written in those earlierarticles in a manner perhaps that showed too littleconsideration for his great gifts and great accom-plishments, but he was characteristically courteousin his reply to my request for some particulars ofthe days of his studentship, and the pains he hadevidently taken to assist me as far as he could inthe project I had in hand bears strong witness tothat ungrudging demand he always made uponhimself when any duty came before him. Hewrote:. LORD LEIGHTON, P.R.A.From the painting by G. F. Watts, in the National Portrait Gallery. Hollyer To face page ( MILLAIS AND LEIGHTON 97 Thursday^ Nov. 27, 1873. Dear Sir—I should have answered your letter soonerhad I been more master of my time. I am dividedbetween my readiness to serve you and my embarrass-ment as to how to satisfy your request concerning mypast life of which you already possess the outline. Ifind on looking at Men of the Time that the facts theregiven under my name are copied from the IllustratedLondon News, to which I furnished some such skeletonto accompany the customary portrait on my election tomembership in the Royal Academy. They are accurate, barring misprints, such as calling my old friendRobert Fleury, Robert Henry. I hardly know whatI can add without egotistic display to this account ofa life in which, whilst there has been, and, as I hope, still is, steady growth and develo

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