 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 598 pages
...twitter in the chimney, But I go forever and come again no more. And in a letter to a friend he wrote : For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health...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... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 884 pages
...touching bit of confidence, written to Mr. Meredith in 1893, the year before Stevenson's death:— For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health;...written In sickness, written torn by coughing, written wlien my head swam for weakness; and for so long, It seems to me I have won my wager and recovered... | |
 | 1901 - 596 pages
...from Samoa, and gives some account of his life there. The following passage from it is pathetic : " For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health....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... | |
 | Scotland - 1901 - 1160 pages
...have finally broken down in 1879. Thenceforth, he himself writes to Mr Meredith, in 1893, he had not a day's real health : "I have wakened sick and gone...done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed," he adds, "and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing,... | |
 | Authorship - 1901 - 220 pages
...well set forth in a letter written by him from Samoa in 1893 to George Meredith, in which he says: "For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health ; I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary; and 1 have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed and written out of it, written in hemorrhages,... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - Authors, Scottish - 1901 - 298 pages
...— 7or fourteen years I have not had a day's real i; I have wakened sick and gone Jo bed weary; I and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed, and written out of it, written in hemor; rhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, i written when my head swam for weakness... | |
 | Indians of North America - 1902 - 628 pages
...years," and of the conditions under which most of It was done he wrote to Mr. George Meredith in 1893: "For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health;...wakened sick and gone to bed weary; and I have done my day unflinchingly. I have written in bed and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written in... | |
 | Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1903 - 380 pages
...and of the conditions under which most of it was done he wrote to' Mr. George Meredith in 1893 : ' For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health...wakened sick and gone to bed weary ; and I have done my day unflinchingly. I have written in bed and written out of it ; written in haemorrhages, written in... | |
 | Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1903 - 382 pages
...have not had a day's real health ; I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary ; and I have done my day unflinchingly. I have written in bed and written out of it; written in haemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - English literature - 1904 - 344 pages
...spite of continued illness, did some of his best literary work. The year before his death he wrote : " For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health...sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my hand swam for weakness ; and for so long, it seems to me I have won my wager and recovered my glove.... | |
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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,... 
