The progress of dulness, part second: or An essay on the life and character of Dick Hairbrain, of finical memory
Subtitle: being an astronomical calendar, calculated for the meridian of New-York, north latitude, 41⁰. West longitude 72⁰:30'; but which may serve without material error, for any of the neighboring climates: containing, among other curious and surprizing particulars, Dick's soliloquy on a college-life--a description of a country-fop---receipt to make a gentleman, with the fop's creed and exposition of the Scriptures---Dick's gradual progress from a clown to a coxcomb---his travels, gallantry, and opinion of the ladies---his peripaetia and catastrophe, with the moral and application of the whole. : Published for the universal benefit of mankind
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 13051
Publisher: Printed [by Thomas and Samuel Green
Published: 1773
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Higher Education; Anecdotes
Notes: In verse.

Attributed to John Trumbull in BAL.

"Advertisement. To be published by the next commencement ... The progress of dulness, part third and last."--p. [28]. Ascribed to the press of Thomas and Samuel Green, who are named in the imprint of the third part.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ D².

With a half-title.

Evans 13051

BAL 20533

Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 1527

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 402