8/15/2023 0 Comments Eloquent words for terrible![]() The Greek version, using pista, seems to support the idea of “excellent,” and makes a contrast: “words that are excellent do not fit a fool.” The idea of arrogance (NIV) fits if it is taken in the sense of lofty, heightened, or excessive language. KJV, NASB NLT “eloquent”) because the basic idea of the word is “remainder excess,” from the verb “be left over.” It describes “lofty” speech (arrogant or excellent) that is not suited for the fool. Proverbs 17:7 tn The word יֶתֶר ( yeter) could be rendered either “arrogant” (cf.(Cyrano comes out of the house she turns to him, indicating the house opposite. (As De Guiche disappears, making a deep curtsey behind his back, and imitating Roxane's intense tone.) Masked, after everyone knows I have gone. Their sleeves are wide enough to cover me. Now, when I feel you trembling?-Listen- Close by, I leave to-night-but-let you through my hands He'll eat his heart out, while his Gascon friendsīite their nails all day long in Paris here. Who but a woman would have thought of this? To sit all through the war with folded arms. Goes on to glory! That would torture him. With one of the Cadets-de Neuve-Neuville. My cousin-You say you mean to be revenged (Sinks dawn, breathless, on the bench aside) One look would frost my roses before bloom. (To Cyrano, pushing him toward the house.) Sending you kisses through my finger-tips. That unto you my whole heart gives one cry,Īnd writing, writes down more than you receive More heart to give than I to find heart-room-"įirst he has too much, then too little justĪre they not the last word in tenderness?. Plucking the flowers, we keep the plant in bloom-" "Take my heart I shall have it all the more Those pretty nothings that are everything. He is beautiful and brilliant-and I love him! He cries: "No, but I KNOW! I'll wager youĪ day of music." Well, of course he lost When, pointing out these two young nightingalesĭressed up like peacocks, with their instruments, (He snatches the instrument from the Page and continues the tune.) (Enters, followed by two pages, carrying theorbos.) (Music of stringed instruments off-stage approaching.) (To Ragueneau, indicating the house opposite.)Īcross the way receives on Thursday nights. Lise loved the soldiers, and I loved the poets. I thought your pastry was a great success! He is by way of telling her something, and wiping his eyes meanwhile. By the Duenna stands Ragueneau dressed in what might be the livery of one attached to the household. The window is wide open on Roxane's balcony a light within suggests that it is early evening. The knocker on this door is tied up in linen like an injured thumb.Īt the Curtain Rise the Duenna is seated on the bench beside the door. Opposite, an ancient house of the like character, brick and stone, whose front door forms an Entrance. Ivy clings to the wall jasmine embraces the balcony, trembles, and falls away.īy the bench and the jutting stonework of the wall one might easily climb up to the balcony. Over the door of the house a balcony and a tall window to one side of the door, a bench. On the Right, The House of Roxane and her garden wall, overhung with tall shrubbery. Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand Translated by Brian Hooker THE THIRD ACT Roxane's KissĪ little square in the old Marais: old houses, and a glimpse of narrow streets.
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