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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
Title: Reflections on Mr Dolls drawing my picture
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Reflections on a life largely spend abroad in Asia instead of on learning
the fashionable art of flattery in order to become wealthy. Occasioned by
having his portrait painted, the artist perhaps being William Dolle, the
engraver
Title: Horace Book 4th Ode 17
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Contrasting the return of Spring with the inevitability of human death,
despite man behaving as if it were otherwise. Translated from Horace, Odes,
IV.7
Title: On a perjur'd lover
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: On a lover who has falsely broken her promises to him, expressing
satisfaction that he has escaped being her husband
Title: Horace Book the 3rd Ode 9
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Dialogue between Horace and Lydia, recalling their former love and admitting
it could return. Translated from Horace, Odes, III.9, with the names of the
speakers marked
Title: A poem on the late peace
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 1697 ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Panegyric on William III, looking forward to the happiness and justice he
will bring to England now the war is over and peace secured (presumably by
the Treaty of Ryswyck, 1697), and urging him to remarry to ensure an heir
Title: Reflections on mankind
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Lightly satirical reflections on man's infinite capacity for folly and
self-deceit, and his reluctance to be persuaded otherwise by reason
Title: Psalm 137
Author: Style, Oliver
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Lament of the Israelites in captivity, praising Jerusalem and prophecying
the destruction of Babylon. Translated from Psalm 137.
Title: Job. Cap 3d.
Author: Style, Oliver
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Translation of the greater part of Job 3, in which Job curses the day he was
born and longs for death; the final two lines added in a different hand.
Title: A serious meditation
Author: Style, Oliver
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 10
Contents: Religious reflections occasioned by the thought of death, repenting of sins,
praying to God for forgiveness, and anticipating the happiness of heaven