Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.
Impatience
Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. 20. L. 381. Pope’s trans.
I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster,
Nor long summer bide so late;
And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster,
For some things are ill to wait.
Jean Ingelow—Song of Seven. Seven Times Two.
I am on fire
To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh
And yet not ours.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 117.