"Impatiens" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... terminations (Impatiens), with neuters in 'en' (Cyclamen), will always be descriptive of some special quality or form,—leaving it indeterminate if good or bad, until explained. It will be manifestly impossible to limit either these neuters, or the feminines in 'is' to Latin ...
— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin
... Tristis et atra quies, et tardae taedia vitae. Nascuntur curis curae, vexatque dolorum Importuna cohors, vacuae mala somnia mentis. Nunc clamosa juvant nocturnae gaudia mensae, Nunc loca sola placent; frustra te, somne, recumbens, Alme voco, impatiens noctis, metuensque diei. Omnia percurro trepidus, circum omnia lustro, Si qua usquam pateat melioris semita vitae, Nec quid agam invenio.... Quid faciam? tenebrisne pigram damnare senectam Restat? an accingar studiis gravioribus audax? Aut, hoc si ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell
... hortatibus adactum esse magis quam inductum; tum Cornelii Woerdeni conviciis et pudore quodam puerili fuisse retentum, cum intellegerem mihi hoc vitae genus haudquaquam aptum esse; nam non omnibus congruunt omnia. Ieiuniorum semper impatiens 20 fui, idque peculiari quadam corporis ratione. Semel excitatus e somno nunquam potui redormiscere nisi post horas aliquot. Ad literas tantum rapiebatur animus, quarum istic nullus usus, adeo ut non dubitem quin si in liberum aliquod ...
— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus
... diuided into seuerall estates or kingdomes) that continuall strife and dissention remained amongst them, so that oftentimes they made sore war after the manner of their countrie one against an other, (for [Sidenote: Luc. lib. 1.] Nulla fides regni socijs, omnisque potestas Impatiens ...
— Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) - Henrie the Second • Raphael Holinshed
... Impatiens Sultani.—Half-hardy perennials. May be raised from seed sown early in spring on a hotbed, or later on in a shady spot in the open border; greenhouse culture, however, is more suitable. They bloom in August. Height, ...
— Gardening for the Million • Alfred Pink |
