'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'...which makes me remember my father Osborne's rule for a gentleman, to spare in all things rather than in that.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'Up and spent the morning till the Barber came in reading in my chamber part of Osborne's "Advice to his Son" (which I shall not ever enough admire for sense and language)'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A conceited fellow. Were a man to write so now, the boys would throw stones at him." He, however, did not alter my opinion of a favourite authour, to whom I was first directed by his being quoted in "The Spectator," and in whom I have found much shrewd and lively sense, expressed indeed in a style somewhat quaint, which, however, I do not dislike. His book has an air of originality. We figure to ourselves an ancient gentleman talking to us.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A conceited fellow. Were a man to write so now, the boys would throw stones at him." He, however, did not alter my opinion of a favourite authour, to whom I was first directed by his being quoted in "The Spectator," and in whom I have found much shrewd and lively sense, expressed indeed in a style somewhat quaint, which, however, I do not dislike. His book has an air of originality. We figure to ourselves an ancient gentleman talking to us.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Book
