 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
 | Sir Graham Balfour - Authors, Scottish - 1915 - 382 pages
...it was done he wrote to George y Meredith in 1893: /\ "For fourteen years I have not had a day's rea health; I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have writ ten in bed, and written out of it, written in hemor rhages, written in sickness, written torn... | |
 | Maude Morrison Frank - Authors - 1915 - 370 pages
...unwearying as his? Here is an extract from a letter written in one of the last years of his life: " I have written in bed, and written out of it, ... written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness; and for so long, it seems... | |
 | Richard Ashley Rice - 1916 - 420 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... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - English literature - 1919 - 340 pages
...making it a source of interest to his readers. He wrote to Meredith the year before his death: — "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... | |
 | Samuel Chester Parker - Education - 1923 - 612 pages
...Dease centered their attention upon the following paragraph written by him the year before he died : 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 - 1923 - 536 pages
...is bringing then* 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; I have waken308 ed sick and gone to bed weary; and I have done Age4S my work unflinchingly. I have written... | |
 | Gustav Wendt - English language - 1923 - 188 pages
...swelled up high and fierce against the chief. — I have not had a day's real health; I have waked sick and gone to bed weary, and I have done my work unflinchingly. — Life is not all beer and skittles. <rr) durch Adverbia. Dieser Gebrauch beschrankt sich auf there,... | |
 | Joseph Fort Newton - Sermons, American - 1925 - 362 pages
...pleasure of reading to you again a paragraph from his letter to George Meredith, from Samoa, in 1893: For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health; I have awakened sick and gone to bed weary; and I have done my work unflinchingly. I have written in bed,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish literature - 1912 - 382 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... | |
 | Henry Neumann - American literature - 1926 - 272 pages
...rebellious strife, Won from his own despair the breath Of an immortal life. A BATTLE IN THE SICK-ROOM 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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