Yep, do it all the time. Use an external 10Mhz DIP oscillator directly into OSC1 using HS/PLL mode for the oscillator. Works great.
Incidentally, I've got a decent select of those DIP oscillators. I've gotten about 99% of the newer PIC18Fxxxx's to run off of 12Mhz external (48Mhz internal). The only ones that really fail are the older 18F452. A few newer types run well at 15Mhz (60Mhz internal), and a couple of my 18F4685's will run at 16Mhz (64Mhz) all day...and are still running...but nothing critical since they're not spec'd to run that fast.
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