"Controversially" Quotes from Famous Books
... favorite at Brook Farm, always equable and playful, wholly simple and frank in manner. He talked readily and easily, but not controversially. His smile was singularly attractive and sympathetic, and the earnestness of which I have spoken gave him an unconscious personal dignity. His temperament was sanguine. The whole air of the youth was that of goodness. I do not think that the impression made by him forecast his career, ... — Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis • G. W. Curtis, ed. George Willis Cooke |