Studious of laborious ease.

-Cowper,William
  The Task, bk.3,'The Garden', l.361.

Unmoved though witlings sneer and rivals rail; Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
c.1737  Irene, prologue (first produced1749).

Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.

-Sandys, George
  On the monks of Patmos. Relation of aJourney Begun An. Dom.1610. Spanish^US   philosopher,    poet   and   novelist,    Professor   of Philosophy  at  Harvard  (1907^12).  His  writing  career  began  as a   poet   with   Sonnets   and   Other  Verses   (1894),   but   he   later became  known  as  a  philosopher  and  stylist,  in  such  works  as The  Life  of  Reason  (5  vols, 1905^6),  Realms  of  Being  (4  vols, 1927^40),  and  his  novel The  Last  Puritan  (1935).  He  moved  to Europe   in  1912,   stayed   at   Oxford  during  World  War   I,   then settled in Rome.

There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead.

-Thomson,James pseudonym 'BV',ByssheVanolis
  The Seasons,'Winter', l.431^2.