Note 25 — LICHFIELD, AN ELEGY. WRITTEN MAY 1781.
Reading edition
l. 5. The villa—Two elegant houses, one at the foot, the other near the top of that umbrageous rising, which soon, but beautifully, bounds this valley to the east. They were built in the year 1756, by a lady of the Aston family, of whom frequent mention is made in Dr Johnson’s letters to Mrs Piozzi, when she was Mrs Thrale.