Zeluco

Another writer of fiction of considerable prominence in his day, but of none in ours, was Dr. Moore, whose "Zeluco" contained some very lively "Views of human nature, taken from life and manners, foreign and domestic," but also some very disagreeable exhibitions of human degradation and vice.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

Dr. Moore, author of "Zeluco," used to say that at least two-thirds of a physician's fees were for imaginary complaints.

The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection Various

Those of the travelers who wrote books never failed to devote a chapter to an account of a visit to Ferney; and from the mass of such descriptions we may select for quotation that written, in the stately style of the period, by Dr. John Moore, author of "Zeluco," then making the grand tour as tutor to the Duke of Hamilton.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 Various 1885

We so far emulate the critical sagacity of the gardener in "Zeluco," that we have learned to distinguish St. Laurence by his gridiron, and

Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847

Were not you to send me your "Zeluco," in return for mine?

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

Duke of Hamilton (Son of “the beautiful Duchess”), author of Zeluco, and father of the famous soldier.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

This most vulgar, but not uncommon, habit, is judiciously censured in that best of novels, -- the Zeluco of Dr. Moore.

The Laws of Etiquette Unknown

Mrs. Hopkins insists on disguising the other half with a coat of light cream colour, or haply a delicate shade of Dutch pink; so that the identity of material which made it so hard for Transfer, in Zeluco, to distinguish between his metal Venus and Vulcan, is often the only incident that the two moieties have in common.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 Various

John Moore, a Glasgow physician, wrote, when he was nearly sixty, the novel of _Zeluco_ (1786) and followed it up with

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

_Zeluco_ chiefly survives because of the exquisitely ludicrous and human trait of the English sailor who, discussing the French army, pronounces white uniforms "absurd" and blue "only fit for the artillery and the blue horse."

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889