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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Crimes

Tremble thou wretch,
That has within thee undivulged crimes,
Unwhipp’d of justice.
Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act III. Scene 2. (The King.)

Sprung from that parent of ten thousand crimes,
The New Philosophy of modern times.
Canning.—New Morality.

Contrivances of the time
For sowing broadcast the seeds of crime.
Longfellow.—The Golden Legend, Div. 5. (Scene at the foot of the Alps.)