“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”

Section 2, member 1, subsection 2, A Digression of the nature of Spirits, bad Angels, or Devils, and how they cause Melancholy.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

Source: Honor's Splendour

in Greek: "Όμορφος κόσμος, ηθικός, αγγελικά πλασμένος".
Sarcastic tone; from his poem "to Francesca Freiser"

in Greek: "Όμορφος κόσμος, ηθικός, αγγελικά πλασμένος".
Sarcastic tone; from his poem "to Francesca Freiser"

Edited version of Journal of Discourses 13:65-66 used to show that Pratt claimed that it was an angel rather than the Father and Son that visited Smith. Attributed to Sandra Tanner in a speech given on November 8, 1998 in Salt Lake City.
Joseph Smith Jr.'s First Vision

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 592.

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The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
Context: O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire, —
Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun,
Took sanctuary within the holier blue,
And sang a kindred soul out to his face, —
Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart—
When the first summons from the darkling earth
Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue,
And bared them of the glory — to drop down,
To toil for man, to suffer or to die, —
This is the same voice: can thy soul know change?
Hail then, and hearken from the realms of help!