"Draggle-tail" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had trusted to his poems, he would never have been able to pay L400 for chambers in the Temple. In fact he said as much to Lord Lisburn at one of the Academy dinners: "I cannot afford to court the draggle-tail muses, my Lord; they would let me starve; but by my other labours I can make shift to eat, and drink, and have good clothes." And there is little use in our regretting now that Goldsmith was not cast in a more heroic mould; we have to take him as he is; and be grateful for ...
— Goldsmith - English Men of Letters Series • William Black |
