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" For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health; I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary; and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed, and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing,... "
The Writer - Page 79
1901
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St. Nicholas, Volume 33

Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 598 pages
...have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written when my head swam for weakness, and for so long it seems to me I have won my wager. The Powers have so willed that my battle field should be this dingy, inglorious one of the bed and...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 170

Scotland - 1901 - 1160 pages
...sick and gone to bed weary, and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed," he adds, "and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written...to me, I have won my wager and recovered my glove." The boast is assuredly not unjustified. He finally left his native country in 1888 to cruise among...
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The Anglo-American Magazine, Volume 5

1901 - 596 pages
...written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, writtenwhen my head swam from weakness; and for so long, it seems to me I have won my wages and recovered my glory. I am better now, have been, rightly speaking, since first I came to the...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 32

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1902 - 864 pages
...art, of scholarship and science. " I have done my work unflinchingly," wrote Stevenson to Meredith. " I have written in bed and written out of it ; written...to me I have won my wager and recovered my glove. " In a like sincerity of supreme devotion to his work for its own sake, Huxley, at twenty-six, wrote...
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Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson - Readers - 1904 - 248 pages
...have written in bed and written out of it," he exulted in a letter to George Meredith from Vailima, "written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written...to me I have won my wager and recovered my glove. . . . And the battle goes on — ill or well, is a trifle; so it goes. I was made for a contest, and...
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St. Nicholas, Volume 33

Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 746 pages
...have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written when my head swam for weakness, and for so long it seems to me I have won my wager. The Powers have so willed that my battle field should be this dingy, inglorious one of the bed and...
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The Medical Bulletin: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 24

Medicine - 1902 - 646 pages
...haemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness, and for long it seems to me I have won my wager and recovered my glove." — Medical News. A Change of Title.— The Chicago Clinic will henceforth be known as The Chicago...
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The Young Man and His Problems

James L. Gordon - Conduct of life - 1911 - 406 pages
...fourteen years I have not had a day's real health; I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary; and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in...to me I have won my wager and recovered my glove." DON'T WHINE! Cheer up, my friends — times may be hard, but hard times can never be remedied by talking...
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More Than Conquerors

Ariadne Gilbert - Biography - 1914 - 452 pages
...have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written when my head swam for weakness, and for so long it seems to me I have won my wager. The Powers have so willed that my battlefield should be this dingy, inglorious one of the bed and the...
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More Than Conquerors

Ariadne Gilbert - Biography - 1914 - 452 pages
...have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written when my head swam for weakness, and for so long it seems to me I have won my wager. The Powers have so willed that my battlefield should be this dingy, inglorious one of the bed and the...
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