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Francis Osborne

  

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Francis Osborne : [works]

'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

  

Francis Osborne : Advice to a son

'...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

  

Francis Osborne : Advice to his son

'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

  

Francis Osborne : [unknown]

'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

  

Francis Osborne : [unknown]

'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

  

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