Excerpt from Under the Dome of St. Paul's: A Story of Sir Christopher Wren's Days The careful student of the history of this great architect of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries must feel that, great and noble as was his work, the man who achieved it was greater and nobler. Disappointed at the very opening of his career by the rejection of his favourite plan for a new London, which would have made the city the pride of the whole nation. 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.