GOLDSMITH'S SHOWY CLOTHES.
Holdsmilh was ludirioush fond of showy clothes. When I'..' sought to take orders in I retainl he tried to lazzle his bishop b\ ;i pair of scarlet breeches. While studying medicine in Kilinmrgh lie wore "rich sky-blue sat in" Tine sk\ -blue shalloon." and silver Kit bice. Before Johnson. Jtcnolds, in,l (,'arrick he si nil led about bragging of his blooni-colour.'il coat, and a hen his. repul al ion had been made i,v, his two principle poems he blazed ortli m purph- silk small clothes, a .rarlet great-coat, and a physician's \ig. lb- carried a gold-headed cane, and i sword hung b,\ his side, a weapon >o (lisptoport ioni-d to his diminutive ■ lilt lire i h;it a coxcomb who passed lim in the Strand called out to his ompanion to "look al thai lly with i lone; pin stuck through it."
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Lake County Press, Issue 2139, 11 October 1906, Page 7
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144GOLDSMITH'S SHOWY CLOTHES. Lake County Press, Issue 2139, 11 October 1906, Page 7
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