 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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 264 pages
...as well as his usual industry by anticipating a letter he was to write in 1893 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." Now Stevenson was buried in literary labors. He was desperately... | |
 | Richard G. Druss - Medical - 1995 - 142 pages
...wrote as an adult, "I have not had a day's real health; I have awakened sick and gone to bed weary. I have written in bed and written out of it, written...hemorrhages, written in sickness, written torn by coughing, written when my head swam for weakness; for so long it seems to me I have won my wager and recovered... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 644 pages
...days to what he called 'my trade of words'. He sums it up in a letter to Meredith in September 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... | |
 | Victoria Brooks - Fiction - 2000 - 378 pages
...island in Samoa, wrote something the year before he died at 44 that has always struck me as heroic: "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,... | |
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