 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
 | 1952 - 638 pages
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 | Samuel MacClintock - Business - 1926 - 747 pages
...Louis Stevenson was one of the greatest writers of the century, but just read this statement from him: "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... | |
 | 1900 - 1072 pages
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 | Electronic journals - 1923 - 496 pages
...life, none which he met with more unflagging courage. Two years later he wrote to George Meredith. "For fourteen years I have not had a day's real health...weary ; and I have done my work unflinchingly. . . I was made for a contest, and the Powers have so willed that my battlefield should be this dingy inglorious... | |
 | Theology - 1957 - 904 pages
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