A most imperial and archangelical apparition of that
unfallen, western world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god, bluff-bowed and fearless as this mighty steed.
It was strangely frightful to the young man's imagination to see this air of insecurity in a person cultivating a garden, that most simple and innocent of human toils, and which had been alike the joy and labor of the
unfallen parents of the race.
The unspoiled memory of angels exhibits qualities similar to those of
unfallen human memory.
My view of Marvell's attitude to the "virginity" in the poem, however, is diametrically opposed to Rogers, who claims that T.C.'s virginity establishes the potential efficacy of a passive power of reformation; she needs to do "no more than 'lie in the green Grass' to effect nature's gradual return to its
unfallen state" (244).
His claim can best be situated not only within his age's restless attempts to imagine an
unfallen human condition, but also within the section in Religio Medici that most directly meditates on Paradise in connection with the virtue of Charity.
These factors are likely to impact the functioning of a moral sense that was designed to operate in an originally
unfallen human community.
Prior to this terrible moment they had existed in an
unfallen state of "original righteousness," for they had been created in God's own image, and that image was wholly, utterly good and without stain, spot, flaw, or imperfection.
The Winter's Tale opens with Archidamus' elaborate courtly praise of the entertainment the Bohemians have enjoyed in an apparently idealized Sicilia: Camillo speaks of the perfect harmony between the kings from their childhood and the kings themselves look back to their youth as a time of
unfallen innocence, joking about sexual experience as a loss of that innocence (I.
Unfallen Adam learns of Satan's fall and punishment.