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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