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Synonyms for upspring

to adopt a standing posture

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Something upspringing in his character leaves him open to experiences of "unbelievable delight" (ARIT 69), and it is not difficult to believe him when he speaks of having "never been sad in the morning" (289).
The thesis is then explored in terms of early Russian ideas about the cinematographic nature of time, invoking Bergson's influential concept of "duration" (duree), the "ceaseless upspringing of something new" (Banerjee quoting Bergson 76).
And this--this keen, perfect, self-existing sentiment of duration--this sentiment existing (as man could not possibly have conceived it to exist) independently of any succession of events--this idea--this sixth sense, upspringing from the ashes of the rest, was the first obvious and certain step of the intemporal soul upon the threshold of the temporal Eternity.
upspringing light, On each hand On golden hinges turning --no cloud or, Star interposed, however small-- Garden the glass Galileo Imagined in flight between worlds and worlds, Winnows Of towering phoenix, gazed by all, as zone Shadowed from either heel enormous forest onward direct within Adam to be our mould, inspired, unsparing ground without Perfections Dazzle (for other place Shape contain) the Garden and the sun I have at will." no veil Shall fill the world of grassy Dance sung) to Man pure Ratio corporeal Of Elements Earth the Sea, the Air those Fires pour off the boughs in mist-- nor alchemist to turn dross flow Paradise!
The actual medium through which Golder perceives 'all these represented towns' is the newspaper; the effect of reading he describes as follows: How like a draught of water cool, So limpid, from the rock upspringing, Unto a parched and fev'rish soul, Those pages are: (13)