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The progress of dulness, part first: or The rare adventures of Tom Brainless, [electronic resource] : shewing what his father and mother said of him; how he went to college, and what he learned there; how he took his degree, and went to keeping school; how afterwards he becames a great man and wore a wig; and how any body else may do the same.--The like never before published. Very proper to be kept in all families. [Three lines of Latin text].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trumbull, John, 1750-1831.
- Standardized Title:
- Progress of dulness, or the rare adventures of Tom Brainless. Pt. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Anecdotes.
- Education, Higher.
- Genre:
- Poems -- 1772.
- Satires.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi,[1],8-26,[2]p. )
- Other Title:
- Progress of dulness, part first
- Place of Publication:
- [New Haven] : Printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green], in the year 1772.
- Notes:
- In verse.
- Attributed to John Trumbull in the Dictionary of American biography.
- Ascribed to the New Haven press of Thomas and Samuel Green, who are named in the imprint of the third part (Evans 13052).
- With a half-title.
- "Advertisement. Preparing for the press, The progress of dulness, part second; or, The adventures of Dick Hairbrain."--p. [27].
- Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 12585
- Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 402
- English Short Title Catalog, W32381.
- OCLC:
- 511226866
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