 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - Liczba stron: 774
...HUMAN NATURE— Treatment of. Tender-handed touch a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. So it is with common natures — Use them kindly, they rebel, But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey... | |
 | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun - 1862 - Liczba stron: 348
...that hour. 246 CHAPTER XL ' Tender-hearted, touch a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.' — AARON HILL. ' There is some soul of good in things evil, Would men observedly distil it out.'—... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - Liczba stron: 880
...have survived to our time : 1 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,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - Liczba stron: 562
..." 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 - Liczba stron: 580
...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... | |
 | New Hampshire. General Court - 1865 - Liczba stron: 996
...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... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - Liczba stron: 398
...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 Bartlett - 1865 - Liczba stron: 504
...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... | |
 | John Booth - 1865 - Liczba stron: 400
...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... | |
 | Mrs. Warren (Eliza) - 1866 - Liczba stron: 110
...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 strong... | |
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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. 
