Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Donald Bossom Fleming '25, of West Newton...
...John Newton, after 20 years at sea, had taken Holy Orders, had become curate of the parish...
William Cowper*, poet, after a few years of insanity, had come to Olney with a Mrs. Unwin, whose sweet influence calmed his troubled spirit. Curate Newton and Poet Cowper were as David and Jonathan...
...Curate Newton acquired facility in hymn-writing, decided to publish. Poet Cowper agreed to help. So, in the glorious year 1779, appeared the Olney Hymns, containing dozens of hymns which English-singing people were destined to sing ever after. Some of them: Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken, How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds, Jesus, Where 'er Thy People Meet, There is a Fountain Filled with Blood...
Poet Cowper, intermittently insane, lived to translate Homer. Curate Newton was advanced to a better "living...