Excerpt from Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R. A This is the first reprint of Hazlitt's Conversations of James Northcote which has been made since the original publication of the work in 1830. The text was at that time starred with incessant initials and blank spaces, which may have offered no difficulty to intelligence sixty years ago, but which would now greatly delay the reader and distract his attention. Whenever it has been possible, these lacunae have now been filled up and in those cases when not even a conjecture can be safely formed, it is not believed that the omission will be found to interfere very much with the reader's satisfaction in following the agreeable pair of gossips. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.