 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 Anglo-American Magazine - Page 2851901Full view - About this book
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish literature - 1906 - 492 pages
...is bringing their grey hairs with sorrow to the dust. I do not know — I mean I do know one thing. For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health...hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness, and for so long it seems to me I have won my wager and recovered... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 746 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...; 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,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Authors, Scottish - 1907 - 500 pages
...is bringing their grey hairs with sorrow to the dust. I do not know — I mean I .do know one thing. For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health;...hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness; and for so long, it seems to me I have won my wager and recovered... | |
 | James Stark - Bereavement - 1907 - 200 pages
...spirit : " For fourteen years I have not had a day's health. I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary : I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed and written out of it : written torn with coughing, written when my head swam for sickness ; few are the days I am not in some physical... | |
 | Medicine - 1902 - 646 pages
...George Meredith, the English author, that for years he had not had a day's real health. "I have awakened sick and gone to bed weary, and I have done my work imflinchingly. I have written in bed and written out of it, written in haemorrhages, written in sickness,... | |
 | James L. Gordon - Conduct of life - 1911 - 406 pages
...I crowned him as a hero, and classed him with Robert Louis Stevenson, who says concerning himself: "For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health;...hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness ; and for so long, it seems to me I have won my wager and recovered... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Authors, Scottish - 1911 - 440 pages
...is bringing their grey hairs with sorrow to the dust. I do not know — I mean I do know one thing. For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health;...hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness; and for so long, it seems to me I have won my wager and recovered... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1911 - 172 pages
...torments. Maj. DANIEL might have said, as a greater genius did say in pathetic reference to himself : " For years I have not had a day's real health. I have wakened...bed weary; and I have done my work unflinchingly." That work to-day is a priceless treasure of this generation. Unflinchingly. Ah! That is the word. Unflinchingly.... | |
 | William James Dawson - Courage - 1911 - 258 pages
...physical infirmities which might have dismayed the bravest. In a letter to George Meredith he says, "For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health. I have written in bed and written out of it ; written in haemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by... | |
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