 | Anonymous - 1865 - 602 pages
...The same writer deserves the credit of the words, if not of the philosophy, of the following : — ' Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains : Grasp it as a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures ; Use them kindly... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 pages
...are big with jest ; nothing that's plain. Rut may be witty, if thou hast the vein. HERRERT. FIRMNESS. TENDER-HANDED, stroke a nettle, And it stings you...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... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 1866 - 808 pages
...ILLUSTRATED REBUSES. (stirrup) (pan) ger (butt) (ass) oft (anser) (teaum) et (hay-weigh) (rat) hl a?. Tender-handed stroke a nettle. And It stings you for...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)... | |
 | Mrs. Warren (Eliza) - 1866 - 110 pages
...it at once ; don't stay thinking about it. 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 pages
...nest, and we are very much pleased to see 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 ?... | |
 | James Cundall - 1866 - 554 pages
...felt ; hence the old verse — " Tender-handed stroke a Nettle, And it stings you for your paius ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. " Nettles are always found in great profusion about old ruins. As a rule you may pretty accurately... | |
 | 1866 - 882 pages
...whom these lines will apply: " Tender-banded press n nettle, And it stings you for your pains; 6qaeeze it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'T is just so with some men's natures; Use them kindly, they rebel; Use them rough as nutmeg-graters,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray, Elegy, 14. NETTLE. Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for...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... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of Good. LOCKE. On Education. TENDER-HANDED stroke a nettle, And it stings you for...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... | |
 | 1867 - 838 pages
...father's knee, your little prattling tongue was taught i utter the nursery rhyme — " Tender-handed touch a nettle, And it stings you for your pains, Grasp...like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." In youth, when with tripping step and blitheful heart, you hurried to th« schoolmaster with a bag... | |
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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. 
