 | Periodicals - 1843 - 280 pages
...requires, indeed, great experience to know the point at which indulgence ceases to be mercy.; 1843.3 2o, Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for...like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains : but, provided toe are acquainted with the conditions under which we use them, moral instruments are... | |
 | 1845 - 792 pages
...characters are thus described : " Tender-handed pcess ilie nettle And listings you for your pains; Squeeze it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. Ihus it is with vulgar natures— Use them gently they rebel ; But be rough as nutmeg graters, And... | |
 | 1846 - 486 pages
...one is to grasp the nettles, and the other to avoid the places where they grow. " Tender handed touch a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp...like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. So it is with vulgar natures, Use them kindly they rebel ; But be rough as nutmeg graters, And the... | |
 | 1847 - 624 pages
...exposed with an unsparing pen. " Soft and easy touch a nettle, And it stings you fur your pains; Grusp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." On such an occasion we shall not permit ourselves to be influenced by mere feelings of humanity,—justice... | |
 | Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1849 - 432 pages
...in our infancy. What says the Nursery Rbyme ? — •' Tender-handed touch a nettle. And it stingy you for your pains : Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." Bulwer has truthfully observed, that the most valuable characteristic of fame, is the laborious and... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 586 pages
...is harmless." More than twenty years ago we read something like these lines : Softly touch the angry nettle, And It stings you for your pains : Grasp It like a man of mettle. SoR as silk the stem remains. The reader may ask, " Do you design making a charge of plagiarism against... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...is, Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice.* Verses Written on a Window in Scotland. Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains...like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'T is the same with common natures : Use 'em kindly, they rebel ; v But be rough as nutmeg-graters,... | |
 | Medicine - 1856 - 800 pages
...been early impressed with a similar idea respecting the action of calomel, that — " Tender handed, stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains...like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." And having acted upon it, I can boast of having generally obtained the best effects of calomel, without... | |
 | Annie French Hector - 1856 - 336 pages
...met her insolence with spirit, for the old rhyme will ever be true — " Tender hearted stroke the nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it...like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." Mr. Longmore was just rising from breakfast when I entered their dining room, and was as ever cordially... | |
 | James Buchanan - Atheism - 1857 - 442 pages
...to hurt any one who will resolutely lay hold of it, and examine its claims. " Gently, softly, touch a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp...like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." It is only necessary to add, that the same general principle seems to be involved in all the forms... | |
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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. 
