Footnote 1
: From Mr. Green's note.
Ed.
Note [1] June, 1827.
The apocryphal book of
Tobit
consists of a very simple, but beautiful and interesting, family-memoir, into which some later Jewish poet or fabulist of Alexandria wove the ridiculous and frigid machinery, borrowed from the popular superstitions of the Greeks (though, probably, of Egyptian origin), and accommodated, clumsily enough, to the purer monotheism of the Mosaic law.
The Rape of the Lock