![]() ‘Elegy on the Death of David Garrick’ (anon.), 1779 2nd edit., with additions, 1779. ‘Congratulatory Ode to Admiral Keppell’ (anon.), 1779. ‘Carmen Seculare of Horace, translated into English verse’ (anon.), 1779. Some new stanzas were spoken before the king at Weymouth ( Gent. 1779, which had been previously published as ‘by Impartialist.’ The ‘Ode to the Warlike Genius’ was inscribed to Lord Amherst, and it was inserted in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine,’ 1798, ii. The principal of the other poems was ‘An Ode to Curiosity: a Bath-Easton Amusement ’ 2nd edit. ‘Ode to the Warlike Genius of Great Britain’ (anon.), 1778 2nd edit. He had studied the human countenance and was an adept in anatomy’ ( Mrs. He was ‘a well-known physiognomist, and of his day the greatest Greek scholar of the west. William Hunter, attended his lectures, and studied botany in the gardens at Kew. Boswell found Tasker submitting his poems to the judgment of the ‘great critick.’ ‘The bard was a lank, bony figure, with short black hair he was writhing himself in agitation while Johnson read, and, showing his teeth in a grin of earnestness, exclaimed in broken sentences and in a keen, sharp tone, “Is that poetry, sir-is it Pindar?”’ Some time later Isaac D'Israeli, while at a watering-place on the coast of Devonshire, recognised Tasker by this description. Johnson on 16 March 1779 is one of the most lifelike passages in Boswell. The description of Tasker's interview with Dr. ![]() ![]() 1801, aged 56, and was buried in the same grave with her husband. The widow, Eleonora Tasker, died at Exbourne on 2 Jan. He was buried close by the chancel, near his father's tomb, a mural tablet being erected on the north side of the tower. His own complaint was that the sequestration was obtained in an ‘illegal mode’ by his ‘unletter'd brother-in-law,’ arising out of ‘merciless and severe persecutions and litigations.’ By 1790 this enemy was dead, and after ‘a continual struggle with sickness and adversity’ Tasker died in great agonies at Iddesleigh rectory on 4 Feb. He had all the imprudence of the poetic race, and on 23 March 1780 the revenues of his benefice were placed under sequestration. 1772), on his mother's presentation, to the vacant rectory of Iddesleigh. He was ordained priest on 12 July 1767.Īt his father's death Tasker was instituted (6 Nov. On 24 June 1764 he was ordained deacon, and on the next day was licensed to the curacy of Monk-Okehampton, near his father's parish. He remained there as sojourner until 10 March 1762, and graduated B.A. Tasker was educated at Barnstaple, and matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford, on 20 Feb. TASKER, WILLIAM (1740–1800), poet and antiquary, born in 1740, was the only son of William Tasker (1708–1772), rector of Iddesleigh, Devonshire, from 6 July 1738, who married Jane, ‘the last branch of the ancient family of the Vickries ’ she died at Iddesleigh on 30 June 1795, aged 83 ( Gent.
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