 ... so long it seems to me I have won my wager and recovered my glove. I am better now, have been rightly speaking since first I came to the Pacific, and still, few are the days when I am not in some physical distress. And the battle goes on — ill or...  The Writer - Page 791901Full view - About this book
 | 1901 - 1110 pages
...show that he was constantly fighting for life. " I was made for a contest," he wrote Mr. Meredith, " and the Powers have .so willed that my battlefield...should be this dingy, inglorious one of the bed and the physic-bottle." But rarely was there heard from him a word of complaint or a tone of melancholy. His... | |
 | 1901 - 998 pages
...— ill or well is a trifle ; so as it goes. I was made for a contest, and the Powers have so ^yilled that my battlefield should be this dingy, inglorious one of the bed and the physic-botde. At least I have not failed, but I would have preferred a place of trumpetings and the... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 598 pages
...should be this dingy, inglorious one of the bed and the physic-bottle. At least I have not failed, but 1 would have preferred a place of trumpetings and the open air over my head. During his last years he sometimes had " scrivener's cramp," so that he could not do his writing himself,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1899 - 504 pages
...when I am not in some physical distress. And the battle goes on — ill or well, is a trifle; so as it goes. I was made fora contest, and the Powers have...place of trumpetings, and the open air over my head. This is a devilish egotistical yarn. Will you try to imitate me in that if the spirit ever moves you... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1901 - 480 pages
...the battle goes on — ill or well, is a trifle ; so as it goes. I was made for a contest, and thei Powers have so willed that my battlefield should be...place of trumpetings and the open air over my head. This is a devilish egotistical yarn. Will you try to imitate me in that if the spirit ever moves you... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1901 - 296 pages
...physical distress. And the battle goes on— ill or well, is a trifle; so as it goes. I was made for a contest, and the Powers have so willed that my battlefield...inglorious one of the bed and the physic bottle." But besides the energy spent on the work there is JO I also the intensity of his intelligence. He had... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1901 - 298 pages
...physical distress. And the battle goes on— ill or well, is a trifle; so as it goes. I was made for a contest, and the Powers have so willed that my battlefield...inglorious one of the bed and the physic bottle." But besides the energy spent on the work there is also the intensity of his intelligence. He had no... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - Authors, Scottish - 1901 - 296 pages
...physical distress. And the battle goes on— ill or well, is a trifle; so as it goes. I was made for a contest, and the Powers have so willed that my battlefield...inglorious one of the bed and the physic bottle." But besides the energy spent on the work there is also the intensity of his intelligence. He had no... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - Authors, Scottish - 1901 - 298 pages
...physical distress. And the battle goes on— ill or well, is a trifle; so as it goes. I was made for a contest, and the Powers have so willed that my battlefield should be this dingy, inv glorious one of the bed and the physic bottle. 'jj also the intensity of his intelligence. He had... | |
 | Indians of North America - 1902 - 628 pages
...physical distress. And the battle goes on — ill or well is a trifle; so as it goes. I was made for a contest, and the powers have so willed that my battlefield...inglorious one of the bed and the physic bottle." His appearance Mr. Balfour thus describes: "The best portrait and photographs give a fair idea, if... | |
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