CANTO FIRST.
ARGUMENT.
Invocation to living beauty as seen in the human countenance.—Importance of personal charms to the female sex.—Man a natural physiognomist.—Mental and moral qualities mirrored in the features.—Original beauty of the human race.—Beauty of angelic natures when purified from the stains of mortality.—Subject of dentistry proposed.—Universal law of nature in regard to human teeth.—Importance of good dental practitioners.