 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...chest, Iron was his door, His hand was iron, His heart was more. VULGAR NATURES. 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 ; But be rough as nutmeg graters, And... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...intercessors. Shakespeare. If you gently stroke a nettle, Mark ! it stings you for your pains ; But seize 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 Bartlett - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 798
...sound your trust is, Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.1 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... | |
 | Proverbial folk-lore - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 176
...Aaron Hill's famous lines on the Nettle well explain this. Tender handed touch a nettle, It will sting 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 gently — they rebel ; Be as rough as nutmeg graters... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 876
...well. The rhymes may be thus completed :— Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you Tor yonr 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... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 748
...his pencil wrought Gave colour, and a body to the thought THE NETTLE'S LESSON. 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 Bartlett - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 890
...sound your trust is, Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.1 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... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 188
...Aaron Hill's famous lines on the Nettle well explain this. Tender handed touch a nettle, It will sting 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 gently — they rebel : Be as rough as nutmeg graters... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 868
...rhymes may be thus completed : — Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains j 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... | |
 | William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 286
...down by the poet ; — ' Tender-handed stroke the nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Orasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. "Tis the same with grovelling natures : Use them Icindly, they rebel ; » But be rough as nutmeg-graters,... | |
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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. 
