Ap-Jones, Ap-Jenkins, and Ap-Evans sound

Among thy sons, but no Ap-ollo’s found.

Bulwer Lytton

W. S. Landor’s depreciation of the “Last Days of Pompeii,” written in 1869:

If aught so damping and so dull were

As these “last days”, of Dandy Bulwer,

And had been cast upon the pluvious

Rockets that issued from Vesuvius,

They would no more have reached Pompeii

Than Rome or Tusculum or Veii.