Excerpt from Haunted LondonOne day when Fuseli and Haydon were walking together, they reached the summit Of a hill whence they could catch a glimpse Of St. Paul's.There was the grey dome looming out by fits through rolling drifts Of murky smoke. The two little lion-like men stood watching the sublime canopy that shrouds the city of the world.1 Now it spread and seethed like the incense from Moloch's furnace now it lifted and thinned into the purer blue, like the waft of some great sacrifice, or settled down to deeper and gloomier grandeur over the vastness Of modern Babylon. That brown cloud hid a huge ants' nest teeming with three millions of people. That dome, with its golden coronet and cross, rose like the globe in an emperor's hand - a type of the civilisation, and power, and Christianity Of England.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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