ill-temper'd

Updated: May 19, 2025

He is really, my dear, I am sorry to have occasion to say it, an ill-temper'd young man; and treats my mother sometimes Indeed he is not dutiful. But, possessing every thing, he has the vice of age, mingled with the ambition of youth, and enjoys nothing but his own haughtiness and ill-temper, I was going to say. Yet again am I adding force to your dislikes of some of us.

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1