 | Charles Mackay - 1877 - 698 páginas
...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.... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 páginas
...— 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... | |
 | 1878 - 742 páginas
...the advice of Aaron Hill:— " Tender handed atroke a nettle, And it gtingfl you for pains ; Graap it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. " Tii the >ame with common natures : Use 'em kindly, they rebel. But be rough as nutmeg graters, And... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1878 - 874 páginas
...is both proper and common." 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. Thus it is with vulgar natures, Use them kindly they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg graters, And the... | |
 | 1881 - 590 páginas
...for smaller animals, like dogs, to avoid. The familiar advice in handling the nettle — ''' Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains," is not applicable to this treacherous plant. To apply the precept would be to add to the pain, with... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 páginas
...man of no mean abilities: 1. Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for vour pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 2. 'T is the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters,... | |
 | Reformed episcopal Church of England - 376 páginas
...application of the moral : — " Gently touch the leaves of nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." Rock. The following is the result of a recent inquiry into the numbers who attend divine worship at... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 páginas
...America. Aaron mnt 1685-1750. 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. Tie the same with common natures, Use them kindly they rebel ; But be rough as nutmeg graters, And... | |
 | Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest - 1881 - 274 páginas
...pass through in safety. ' ' Tender handed stroke the uettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." " The law of the harvest is to reap more than we sow." and it is for the purpose of learning how to... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 páginas
...air. Gray, Elegy, 14. SETTLE. 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... | |
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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. 
