pyrenaeans

Updated: April 30, 2025

For of all the powers exercised by this passion over our minds, one of the most wonderful is that of supporting hope in the midst of despair. Difficulties, improbabilities, nay, impossibilities, are quite overlooked by it; so that to any man extremely in love, may be applied what Addison says of Caesar, "The Alps, and Pyrenaeans, sink before him!"

Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, a Foundling