 | Henry Woodcock - 1862 - 370 lehte
...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 ;... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 lehte
...strive, A reasoning mule will neither lead nor drive. MALLET.— Epilogue to " The Brothers." 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 lehte
...there is but one 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...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 Booth - 1865 - 400 lehte
...most bright. 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...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... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 lehte
...most bright. 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...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 - 504 lehte
...and 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...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... | |
 | New Hampshire. General Court - 1865 - 996 lehte
...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...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... | |
 | 1865 - 600 lehte
...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 : they rebel : But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues will use you well.' Prior, indeed, was at home in both veins ; but he is better to our mind when writing... | |
 | 1865 - 600 lehte
...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... | |
 | George Sparkes - 1865 - 184 lehte
...odium redditur. Nor are the following lines, caustic though they be, altogether devoid of truth — 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... | |
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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. 
