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" I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness ; Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted,... "
The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ... - Page 88
by William Oldys - 1740
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English History in Shakespeare

Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - Great Britain - 1918 - 320 pages
...taint it be) quite plainly in his first soliloquy (Henry IV, Part I, Act I, Scene 2) : PRINCE HENRY : " I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother...
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Hamlet: An Historical and Comparative Study

Elmer Edgar Stoll - 1919 - 88 pages
...Hal's deceiving himself in his first soliloquy (Oxford Lectures, 1914, p. 254). I refer to the words: "I know you all and will awhile uphold the unyok'd humour of your idleness," etc. If a case of self-deception, how was the audience to discover that it is? Instead of...
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The Dickensian, Volume 15

Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1919 - 294 pages
...speech in the play of Henry IV. as to counter robbing FalstaS and the other evil doers is as under : — I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun : Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother...
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King Henry the Fourth: Part I, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1922 - 232 pages
...night in Eastcheap ; there I'll sup. Farewell. 195 POINS. Farewell, my lord. Exit PRINCE OF WALES. I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : 189. same Qj | Ff omit 178. appointment : equipment, outfit. 181-182. sirrah. Used merely...
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Shakespeare's Principal Plays

William Shakespeare - 1927 - 970 pages
...to-morrow night in Eastcheap; there I'll sup. Farewell. Point. Farewell, my lord. Exit Poins. Prince. But what we do determine oft we break. Purpose is but the slave t idleness: Yet herein will I imitate the sun, 220 Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother...
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The Tragedies of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1902 - 236 pages
...soliloquy, neither hypocritical nor vainglorious, nor yet of deliberate purpose, but simple and natural : I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness; Yet herein will I imitate the sun; Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother...
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The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1, Volume 1

Harold C. Goddard - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 410 pages
...out into the memorable words which, though they have been quoted so often, must be quoted once more: I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness: Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother...
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Staging Politics: The Lasting Impact of Shakespeare's Histories

Wolfgang Iser - Drama - 1993 - 254 pages
...right at the start, which becomes a foil for assessing and appraising his often self-willed actions: I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother...
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Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of His Time

Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...Machiavellian soliloquy in / Henry IV, which expresses his intentions toward Falstaff, begins with Hal's claim "I know you all, and will awhile uphold / The unyok'd humour of your idleness" (1.2.190) and ends with I lal's pledge that he will "so offend, to make offence a skill,...
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Teaching with Shakespeare: Critics in the Classroom

Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson - Literature - 1994 - 284 pages
...relaxing and joking with Falstaff and Poins, and is finally left alone to deliver his only soliloquy, "I know you all, and will awhile uphold / The unyok'd humour of your idleness." The student playing Prince Hal, in fact a graduate student of drama, gave an excellent performance...
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