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Title: A poem against knowledge
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Religious poem, praising God and lamenting Adam's desire for knowledge which
led to the Fall of man and the loss of the perfect happiness of paradise
Title: Reflections on the approaching age
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Anticipating the physical and other changes that old age will bring but
(with God's help) finding reassurance that practising reason and virtue can
still ensure a happy life
Title: Vice triumphant
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: A series of character portraits of opposing virtuous and vicious types in
society, showing the former generally suffering and the latter successful
Title: Advice to a painter how to draw the earthquake that hapned in Smyrna June
30th 1688
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Autobiographical account of the earthquake that badly damaged Smyrna, in Asia
Minor, in 1688, lamenting the death of several friends; in the form of advice
to a painter.
Title: On the death of a parrott
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Reflections on his life and unhappy captivity, supposedly spoken by a now
dead parrot
Title: Horace Liber 1, Ode 22
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: On virtue being the surest guard against danger, and on the constancy of love
in all extremities. Translated from Horace, Odes, I.22.
Title: A satyr against marriage
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Forthright declaration against the bonds of marriage, preferring the freedom
of love not bound by contracts
Title: On the sight of the tombs of my dear mother and brothers in Watringbury
Church who dy'd while I was in Asia
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Elegiac lament, praising and giving thanks for the lives of the author's
mother and murdered brothers, buried in Wateringbury Church, Kent
Title: Carmen saeculare Hor.
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Translation of Horace's "Carmen seculare", praising and petitioning the gods
for the safety and prosperity of Rome
Title: On the death of the late Queen Mary
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 1695 ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Extravagant elegiac pastoral lament on the death of Mary II, mainly in the
form of an address to 'Strephon' by personifications of the spirit, or
genius, of England and of Belgium (Holland); also praises William III
Title: A poem presented to the Honourable the Lady B.
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Reflections on the order in the natural world, contrasting it with man's
unruly behaviour and preoccupation with power, leading to war and misery.
Ends with praise of the dedicatee (who must be Susan Armyne, Lady Belasyse)
as a potential bulwark against t
Title: Horace Book 2nd Ode 14
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: On human mortality and the the inevitability of death. Translated from
Horace, Odes, II.14