 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
 | Methodist Church - 1908 - 1040 pages
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 | Methodist Church - 1907 - 1038 pages
...less courage and persistence would have made any kind of work impossible. He writes thus to a friend : "For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health. I have written in bed and written out of it, written in hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by... | |
 | Langdon Cheeves Stewardson - Sermons - 1913 - 354 pages
...south seas he never gave up the task on which his heart was set. In 1893 he wrote to George Meredith, "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... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 678 pages
...buried on the summit of a Samoan mountain near his home. In 1 893 he wrote to George Meredith : — " In fourteen years I have not had a day's real health...written in bed, and written out of it, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness ..." Many have found in... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 672 pages
...buried on the summit of a Samoan mountain near his home. In 1893 he wrote to George Meredith: — "In fourteen years I have not had a day's real health;...written in bed, and written out of it, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness ..." " If I have faltered... | |
 | Ariadne Gilbert - Biography - 1914 - 452 pages
...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... | |
 | Ariadne Gilbert - Biography - 1914 - 452 pages
...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... | |
 | New York Public Library - Biography - 1914 - 74 pages
...Nelson.) Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894 "For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health. 1 have wakened sick and gone to bed weary; and I have done my work unflinchingly... And the battle goes on — ill or well, is a trifle, so as it goes. I was made for a contest, and the... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - Authors, Scottish - 1915 - 410 pages
...twenty years, and of the conditions under which most of it was done he wrote to George Meredith in 1893: "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... | |
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