repine

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Repine not, oh! my friend, if all your race are not of these.

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs

Repine not if our clime deny, Above thine honoured sod to bloom, The flowerets of a milder sky.

From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Scott, Walter, Sir

With the notes of his charmer to vie; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs and die.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

Repine not then, that low thy lot is cast; Health gives to life or high or low it's zest; 'Tis Appetite that seasons our repast, And Weariness still finds the softest rest.

From An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects by Bloomfield, Nathaniel

Repine not an affliction hit thee hard; * For woe and welfare aye      conjoint abide: How oft shall woman see all griefs surround * Yet feel a joyance      thrill what lies inside!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir