Macaulay, Lincoln, Ruskin, de Quincey, Browne, and Emerson are the greatest prose artists in the English language...

Macaulay, Lincoln, Ruskin, de Quincey, Browne, and Emerson are the greatest prose artists in the English language. Accept no alternatives.

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What about Shakespeare?

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>prose.
>Shakespeare

Jeremy Taylor, Walter Pater, William Cobbett and Sydney Smith are also acceptable word-painters.

Get on my level.

No, you get on mine.

Pretty but perpetually thin. Savaged Coleridge while failing to measure up to him.
I'd add Taylor and Lamb, Aubrey and Walton.

>Ruskin
That's just wrong. You probably want to read Carlyle who he modelled himself on.