 Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a wagon loaded...  The Beauties of Washington Irving - 第 31 頁Washington Irving 著 - 1835 - 270 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | James Guimond - 1991 - 368 頁
...Promised Land, as he imagined how he could transform the Van Tassel estate into cash and invest the money in "immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness." By the twentieth century, Philip Rahv commented, the principle theme of "the modern American novel... | |
 | Daniel Hoffman - 1994 - 396 頁
...in his mouth.' Considerations of this sort lead Ichabod into a most interesting reverie: he imagines 'the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children,...dangling beneath; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or Lord knows where.' Here... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 頁
...eye" perceives the physical environment as objects to be ingested or as property to be "turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness." Brom Bones, by posing as the Headless Horseman, succeeds in expelling his rival from Sleepy Hollow... | |
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