 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 σελίδες
...Epilogue to " The Brothers." NETTLE.— Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures : Use 'em kindly, they rebel ; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And... | |
 | 1864 - 580 σελίδες
...must, I imagine, be these : — " Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. " Thus it is with vulgar natures, Use them kindly they rebel ; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 σελίδες
...jealousy injustice.* Epilogue to Zara. Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. Verses written on a Window in Scotland. 'T is the same with common natures : Use 'em kindly, they rebel... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 σελίδες
...who means no mischief does it all. Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures Use them kindly they rebel ; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And... | |
 | John Booth - 1865 - 400 σελίδες
...who means no mischief does it all. Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures Use them kindly they rebel ; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And... | |
 | New Hampshire. General Court - 1865 - 996 σελίδες
...remiuded of the quaint lines — "Tender handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains." We have in mind now a case in point. Some two or three years since, a boy came to be sixteen years... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 1866 - 808 σελίδες
...(teaum) et (hay-weigh) (rat) hl a?. Tender-handed stroke a nettle. And It stings you for your pains ; Grasp It like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. [(Tender) (hand) (dead) si (row) (key) A (net) (tea)le, & (eye) (tea) (st mgs) (ewe) (four) (ewer)... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 σελίδες
...hast the vein. HERRERT. FIRMNESS. TENDER-HANDED, stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with vulgar natures ; Use them kindly they rebel ; Be as rough as nutmeg-graters, And... | |
 | Mrs. Warren (Eliza) - 1866 - 110 σελίδες
...You know the old rhyme, — " ' Tender-handed touch the nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.' So, little friend, difficulties vanish before resolution and action." " But, Bertha, I have not the... | |
 | James Currie (A.M.) - 1866 - 204 σελίδες
...him. EXEECISE CXXVI. THE NETTLE. Tenderly you stroke the nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. EXEECISE CXXVII. EXAMPLE IS BETTEK THAN PEECEPT. said the young crab, " show me the way, will you ?... | |
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Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 
