How to Improve
The Loud Force of Your Speech

Force has reference to the degree of strength of the voice. It should be carefully distinguished from Pitch.

Here are some excerpts for you to improve the loud force of your speech:

LOUD

1. Ye crags and peaks, I'm with you once again! I hold to you the hands you first beheld, To show they are still free. Methinks I hear A spirit in your echoes answer me, And bid your tenant welcome to his home Again! 0 sacred forms, how proud you look! How high you lift your heads into the sky! How huge you are! how mighty and how free! Ye are the things that tower, that shine,-whose smile Makes glad, whose frown is terrible, whose forms, Robed or unrobed, d3 all the impress wear Of awe divine. Ye guards of liberty, I'm with you once again! I call to you With all my voice! I hold my hands to you, To show they still are free. I rush to you, As tho I could embrace you.

"Tell on His Native Hills." J. S. KNOWLES.

2. King Henry. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head,
Like the brass cannon
Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide;
Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit
To his full height!-On, on, ye noblest English,
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers, that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought,
And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit; and, upon this charge,
Cry-God for Harry! England ! and Saint George!

"Henry V." SHAKESPEARE.

3. Our fathers raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome , in the height of her glory, is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts; whose morning drumbeat, following the sun in its course and keeping pace with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England .

WEBSTER.

VERY LOUD

1. From every hill, by every sea,
In shouts proclaim the great decree, "All chains are burst, all men are free" Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!

2. " Victoria !" sounds the trumpet,
"Victoria!" all around; "Victoria!" like loud thunder It runs along the ground.

3. "Forward, the light brigade!
Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

"The Charge of the Light Brigade," TENNYSON.