 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 774
...what is serviceable to the rest of mankind. A ntoitinut. HUMAN NATURE— Treatment of. Tender-handed touch a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ;...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... | |
 | Henry Woodcock - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...in rose-water our syllables of condemnation," and I believe he will answer, " No." " Tender handed touch a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of metal, And it soft as silk remains. So it is with Roman teaching, Give it f&vonr and you'r caught ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 880
...little piece — an epigram — which can be said to have survived to our time : 1 Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp...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 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...will neither lead nor drive. MALLET.— Epilogue to " The Brothers." NETTLE.— Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp...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 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...your correspondent HS, the lines he alludes to must, I imagine, be these : — " Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp...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 - عدد الصفحات: 996
...judicious discipline must he inforced. We are often remiuded of the quaint lines — "Tender handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains ; Grasp...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 Bartlett - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...sound your trust is, Fear is affront : and jealousy injustice.* Epilogue to Zara. Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp...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 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp...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 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp...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... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...nothing that's plain. Rut may be witty, if thou hast the vein. HERRERT. FIRMNESS. TENDER-HANDED, stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp...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... | |
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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. 
