COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC:
I Series of Practical Lessons
THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND PECULIARITIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, PUNC
TUATION, TASTE, THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION, FIGURES, STYLE
AND ITS ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES, CRITICISM, AND THE VARIOUS
DEPARTMENTS OF PROSE AND POETICAL COMPOSITION;
ILLUSTRATED WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES.
ADAPTED TO SELF-INSTRUCTION, AND THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
"True grace in writing comes from ART, not chance."-POPE.
BY G. P. QUACKENBOS, A.M.,
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL OF "THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL," NEW YORK; AUTHOR
OF "FIRST LESSONS IN COMPOSITION," ETC.