Benjamin Disraeli

“ It seemed a happy and a thriving city, that forlorn Jerusalem, as Tancred, from the heights of Olivet, gazed upon its noble buildings, and its cupolaed houses of freestone, and its battlemented walls and lofty gates. Nature was fair, and the sense of existence was delightful. It seemed to Tancred that a spicy gale came up the ravines of the wilderness, from the farthest Arabia. ”

“ I shudder at the sight of it.'
'Heigho!' said Tancred, stretching his arm, and half-speaking to himself, 'I wish the battle of Gindarics had never ceased, but that, like some hero of enchantment, I had gone on for ever fighting.'
'Ah! there is nothing like action,' said Baroni, unscrewing his pistols.
'But what action is there in this world?' said Tancred. 'The most energetic men in Europe are mere busybodies. Empires are now governed like parishes, and a great statesman is only a select vestryman. ”

“ Tancred roamed about the house, surveyed his court and garden, sighed, while Baroni rewarded and dismissed their escort. 'I know not how it is,' he at length said to his intendant, 'but I never could have supposed that I could have felt so sad and spiritless at Jerusalem.'
'It is the reaction, my lord, after a month's wandering in the desert. It is always so: the world seems tame.'
'I am disappointed that Besso is not here. I am most anxious to see him.'
'Shall I send for the Colonel, my lord?' said Baroni, shaking Tancred's Arabian cloak. ”