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So when we view a castle-wall Rent by a ponderous cannon ball, We must conclude from your new rules (Our reas'ning fathers being fools), That 'tis not solid brick or stone Which solid iron has o'erthrown; But that a Nothing did attract, And had not strength to counteract, By its repulsive force the thing, (The Thing your pardon Sir, the Nothing).

Alexander Bicknell

Alexander Bicknell

Alexander Bicknell

Died: 1796

Bio: Alexander Bicknell, author, was an industrious littérateur of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, whose writings received received ridicule or faint praise in the Monthly Review. He died 22 August 1796 in St. Thomas's Hospital, London.

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