 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 768 Seiten
...colour, and a body to the thought, THE NETTLE'S LESSON. Ten der-1 landed 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 - 1875 - 890 Seiten
...is affront, and jealousy injustice.1 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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 Seiten
...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 - 286 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Septimus Smet Thorburn - 1876 - 506 Seiten
...proverb in English about the nettle, also the verse : " 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." 53. Ask for your head from God ; there are plenty of turbans, O Hami'd ! That is, if a man's life is... | |
 | Charles Richard Tuttle - 1876 - 752 Seiten
...for an end worthy of pursuit : "Tenderly, you touch a nettle, And it stings you for your pains. But grasp it, like a man of mettle. And it soft as silk remains." These men had grasped their nettle in the same spirit as that which had erstwhiles animated the citizens... | |
 | Alicia Amy Leith - 1877 - 292 Seiten
...life Poised on her even finger. J\<igm-e. January 5th. TENDER-HEARTED, stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. Aar,»i inn. COME not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1877 - 698 Seiten
...Courageous, full of spirit. METTLESOME. — Courageous. 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. JOHNSON. A metaphor from the metal of a blade upon the temper of which the power of a weapon depends.... | |
 | 1877 - 362 Seiten
...ebony. — THOMAS FULLER. Nettle — Tender-handed stroke a NETTLE, And it etings you for your paius ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remaius. 'Tie the sатe with common natures : Use 'em kindly, they rebel ; But be rough lls nutmeg-graters,... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 Seiten
...image of God cut in ebony. — THOMAS FULLER. 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... | |
| |
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. 
